Gerry Cooney Quotes

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.

I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid.

I boxed 15 years in a club.

When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

I've competitively boxed. It's definitely Plan B for me, but I know how to box.

My mother used to box, and I followed her footsteps into training. She loves fighting.

When I was 17 or 18, I realised I could do something with boxing.

My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.

I have a great passion for boxing. I have family members who are boxers.

On a personal level, I probably wouldn't want my boys to box professionally. But I do encourage them to get into boxing training - they both go along. It keeps them fit.

I was 11 when I started boxing. My brother was fighting before I did, and he got me into it.

I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

My mother gave me boxing gloves; I wanted boxing gloves. I liked to box. So I still have them. They're still in my bookcase, very old, tattered, and they were cherished.

Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.

I already know what boxers do; I've been in it all my life. I know what they do, and I know how they prepare.

No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste.

We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

I'm not like a full athlete. But I'm definitely a boxer.

I believe amateur boxing training should be available in schools. Not for all, but for those who want to.

I have experience of boxing. I know what it is like to be hit. Half my life is boxing. I start fighting when I am 16.

This is not a sport for me - I live boxing. I've been boxing since I was seven years old.

I just love boxing. Train to get there and to just fight somebody.