Latest Gerry Cooney Quotes from Interviews

• Today I have a great life. I have three kids and a beautiful wife. I play golf every day. I give to charities. I'm in a lucky position.

  Gerry Cooney

  Beautiful, Kids, Golf

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• The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with [Larry] Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

  Gerry Cooney

  Regret, Fighting, Careers

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• Gil Clancy told me to move around for six or seven rounds, but when you're a puncher and you catch someone, you got after them. And in that fight [with George Foreman in 1999] my timing was off and I got caught.

  Gerry Cooney

  Moving, Fighting, Six

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• [Michael Spinks] didn't belong in the same ring as me, but I wasn't taking good care of myself because of drink and he beat me.

  Gerry Cooney

  Care, Drink, Beats

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• Had I had another year, I think I would've beaten [ Harry Carpenter] - and Larry Holmes even said that himself; that if I'd had another year to get ready I'd have beaten him. Me and he are good friends today though, and that fight was a great moment for me. I lost, but then I had to move on and get on with my life.

  Gerry Cooney

  Moving, Good Friend, Fighting

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• I got messed up between my fight with Ken Norton and my fight with Larry Holmes; I got messed up with alcohol. I needed at least a year more experience, with three or four more fights before I fought Holmes. But I couldn't get any fights. Don King had all the contenders, and unless I signed myself over to him, I couldn't get a fight.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Fighting, Years

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• The way to beat the Klitschkos is to get inside, under the jab, and bang to the body. Do that for two or three or four rounds and then the hands will come down and then you turn them over. It's like chopping a tree down. These guys try to headhunt when they fight them and that won't work. But you back them up, the younger brother especially, and he loses heart.

  Gerry Cooney

  Brother, Heart, Fighting

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• A lot of the athletes moved away from boxing, into UFC - which I think is really crazy, where they elbow to the head and knee to the jaw. I think that's really a barbaric sport - but boxing is coming back.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Crazy, Athlete

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• With the Klitschkos, though, unless someone comes around, they can stay where they are forever! The heavyweight division is lackluster, and it will be until someone comes along who can test them.

  Gerry Cooney

  Forever, Heavyweights, Division

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• Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

  Gerry Cooney

  Boxing

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• I like the Klitschko boys, I think they're in a class of their own. I like Manny Pacquiao. All the super-middleweights are great.

  Gerry Cooney

  Boys, Thinking, Class

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• I am a fight fan. I think boxing had its problems and kind of fell away for a while, but it's coming back strong .

  Gerry Cooney

  Strong, Fighting, Thinking

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