Gerry Cooney Quotes

The first thing I learned in boxing is to not get hit. That's the art of boxing. Execute your opponent without getting hit. In sports school, we were putting our hands behind our backs and having to defend ourselves with our shoulders, by rolling, by moving round the ring, moving out feet.

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to hit and not get hit.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

Striking isn't just about kicking and punching. It's far more complex than that. It's also about timing and range.

He sells, he knows how to talk, he's smart, he's no fool. McGregor doesn't fight, he just reacts, he's never first to throw a punch. He goes in there to tease, not to fight. He's like Muhammad Ali.

When I come in throwing shots from different angles and with both hands, I've been knocking people clean out.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

Dos Santos just has really good movement. He's really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.

I'm an orthodox fighter, relaxed, fast, and powerful. And I've got good footwork.

My best weapon is probably my speed. I am faster than most middleweights, and I know how to use it.

With the overhand right in the past, I always got caught. My chin was up, and my shoulder wasn't where it was supposed to be, covering my chin.

Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.

I can box, I can bang, I can switch, I can punch, I'm not slow.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

Boxing is very one dimensional. You can hit to the head, you can hit to the body. As soon as two guys get into a clinch, you're separated.

I'm a boxer by nature, so, obviously, the jab is always key - but it is nice to know you've got a right hand behind it.

I've got a really canny knack for avoiding big punches or clean punches.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called out: quickness, force, precision, foresight, readiness, pluck, and endurance. With these, the rowdy and 'rough' are not satisfied.

As everyone in boxing knows, styles makes fights.

When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.