124 Quotes by Gerry Cooney

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.

When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing.

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning.

I am spending lots of time with the youth of America, like I told you earlier, and only wish when I was a kid, that I had someone to talk to.