Quotes by Gerry Cooney

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to keep constantly taking punches you're going to lose your heart. Once you learn how to miss the punches and then you start to punch them, you become an all-around fighter.

I'm easygoing. There's a place and time for everything. When that bell rings, I'm not nice and easy. I'm not meek and passive.

Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.

People who think I lack desire are wrong.

I learned a lot from the Holmes fight. I learned about styles and the pressure. I'm more prepared now.

I want to get me one of those titles.

Anytime somebody climbs up those steps into the ring, they have a heart.

When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.

Sometimes it takes certain people longer to get over things than others.

Most fighters, when they're finished, boxing turns its back on them.