Gerry Cooney Quotes

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.

Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.

I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.

Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.

I really believe I can knock anyone out in this world.

We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

Boxing was not something I truly enjoyed. Like a lot of things in life, when you put the gloves on, it's better to give than to receive.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

I enjoy fighting. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I'm just enjoying every minute of it.

I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.

Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

I always break people's noses with the uppercut, not the hook.

I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.