Gerry Cooney Quotes

Saunders didn't beat me. I wasn't battered or shown-up. I made the mistake of not pressing him early, pacing myself too much because it was my first 12-round fight.

The Velez fight wasn't my best.

The reason I like Olympic boxing is that all the best fighters come together and find out who the best fighter is.

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

Football is a passionate game. It excites us.

Life is a soccer field, don't you think?

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with going the distance in the fight than going out and taking Holmes out.

All you can do is the same as any other fight: whoever they put in front of you, you go in there and try to get the W.

I've fought a lot of prospects.

Football is a tough game. It's a tough game for tough people.

I know that in football everything can go very quickly.

I've always seen football as a game. You lose or win.

A lot of people were wondering how I'd perform against a big, tall, rugged fighter like Jeff Horn. I think I handled it with an A-plus.

I will beat Aldo. I wanna fight him.

Luis Sanchez will definitely bring a challenge, and I know he will try to bring the fight to me.

Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone.

My goal is to get all these fighters that everybody say I'm running from inside the ring with me.

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

To be able to battle is very important.

Wrestling, for me, is always an awesome challenge because you have the opportunity to constantly create something new, your canvas is always the ring, and there are similarities to every match that you have and what you do.

A boxing ring looks different from the inside, particularly when it's shared with another man who is intent upon rendering you unconscious. There's no place to hide. Once a fighter climbs the stairs, he's roped in, unable to leave until his night's work is done.

I don't just want to fight Demetrious: I want to beat him, and he's been on my mind since he beat me.

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.