Gerry Cooney Quotes

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

This is always one of my big pet peeves is that 65% of NBA players, three years out of the NBA, are broke. I mean, so, maybe maturing a little more on the front end and getting an education might serve you well down the road.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

I talk to amateurs, up-and-coming guys, fighters older than me, and we compare notes to teach each other how to leave this game on top from a legacy and financial standpoint.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.

Web banking lets you monitor your spending, tweak your budget, schedule payments, and more, particularly if you marry your online bank with the personal-finance management tools available online.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Youth should be a savings bank.

The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.

Anything that gets people to think harder about their financial security and take some responsibility is a good thing.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.