Gerry Cooney Quotes

I certainly was not going to add to his humiliation in the hour of defeat.

Once I got beat by Mayweather I felt so ashamed. I cancelled all my functions, all my appearances, I didn't want to walk down the street. I was too embarrassed to even go and have a pint with my mates.

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.

I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

You led us to the greatest humiliation France has experienced in 20 years.

Shameful.

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

My films are about embarrassment.

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.