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Gerry Cooney Quotes

I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You're no good. You're a failure. You're not going to amount to anything. Don't trust nobody, and don't tell nobody your business. When I lost to Larry Holmes in 1982, I felt all five of those things smacked me right across the face.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1956

Topics

Failure Good Business Trust Man Me

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

Mother Me Sister Sound Older Sister

I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.

Jennifer Granholm

Think President High Gas Like

I was pretty aimless as a youth, especially in Patna. I think reading saved me.

Me Youth Reading Think Pretty Saved

That's what great players do: continue to prove themselves.

Great Prove Players Continue

Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

People Young Now Mean Active Cancer

I'm perfectly happy for my videos to be on YouTube, whether I'm getting paid for them or not. If they're on YouTube, people will see them. If for some reason my videos get taken down from YouTube, well, I apologize. If it was up to me they'd all be up there and they'd all be free.

Happy People Me Free Down Will

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Time Action Free Camera Said Stage

The expectations of people and society on Samsung have grown stricter and bigger.

People Society Expectations Bigger

It's OK to stand back. But it's also good to demonstrate that it's fun to be involved. As long as you are willing to say, 'This looks fun. I'd like to try this, too,' your child will mimic your example of openness, playfulness and optimism.

Good Fun Optimism Child Stand You

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Life Father Person Mean Controlling

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Knowledge Past I Am Organization

You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

You Know Movies Cruise Office Box

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