When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing.
Gerry Cooney

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
Gerry Cooney

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
Gerry Cooney

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.
Gerry Cooney

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
Gerry Cooney

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.
Gerry Cooney

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.
Gerry Cooney