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I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing pennile...
GERRY COONEY

It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to g...
GERRY COONEY

I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just - I was blinded. I wa...
GERRY COONEY

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had th...
GERRY COONEY

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to r...
GERRY COONEY

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to ...
GERRY COONEY

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter...
GERRY COONEY

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because i...
GERRY COONEY

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Th...
GERRY COONEY

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guy...
GERRY COONEY

I had two managers who couldn't stand each other. I had a promoter, Don King, who couldn't g...
GERRY COONEY

Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, a...
GERRY COONEY

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not pa...
GERRY COONEY

I've had a long, long road with lots of ups and downs. But that's all behind me now.
GERRY COONEY

It's tough waking up in the morning and reading derogatory stories about you.
GERRY COONEY

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
GERRY COONEY

I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ...
GERRY COONEY

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people thi...
GERRY COONEY

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left...
GERRY COONEY

When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden ...
GERRY COONEY

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it....
GERRY COONEY

In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with go...
GERRY COONEY

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying ...
GERRY COONEY

I see Mike Tyson as too strong for Spinks.
GERRY COONEY

Every Saturday and Sunday, when the other guys were out having a good time at the mall, I was at hom...
GERRY COONEY

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
GERRY COONEY

The past is yesterday. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
GERRY COONEY

I don't overswing any more. I can throw a punch and be right in position to punch again. No more...
GERRY COONEY

I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world.
GERRY COONEY

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.
GERRY COONEY

I don't fear Holmes, but I think he's a good fighter. He has a lot of pride. But I wouldn...
GERRY COONEY

I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You&#...
GERRY COONEY

I'm easygoing. There's a place and time for everything. When that bell rings, I'm not ni...
GERRY COONEY

Joe DeGuardia, I love that guy. He's not a superstar promoter yet, but he will be. He was a figh...
GERRY COONEY

I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You kn...
GERRY COONEY

I'm a real person. I have real feelings. I have real thoughts. It's a quality people like ab...
GERRY COONEY

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.
GERRY COONEY

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.
GERRY COONEY

I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like ...
GERRY COONEY 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissi...
BARBARA COONEY My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
BARBARA COONEY It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the s...
BARBARA COONEY She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess wi...
BARBARA COONEY I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …I...
BARBARA COONEY I call it the birthday cake model. We need to have building codes, but we do not want to turn the to...
BRIAN COONEY I just think it doesn't show well. This is a small-town election. This is not state party politics.
BRIAN COONEY I think it's a good idea, but I also think it's going to happen. I think we're headed right in that ...
BRIAN COONEY With only two candidates, it's going to give voters an opportunity to very closely examine the track...
BRIAN COONEY We've all been there. You feel embarrassed, but let it go.
MAUREEN COONEY Things get spilled. It happens.
MAUREEN COONEY If someone is truly intimidated, they're not going to recommend it to their friends. One good turn d...
MAUREEN COONEY Do some math, and make sure everyone gets something.
MAUREEN COONEY Do your best to eat a little. Try to be an adult.
MAUREEN COONEY You work from the outside in.
MAUREEN COONEY But don't go to the bottom of the menu either.
MAUREEN COONEY Let's face it. You're not going to order lobster.
MAUREEN COONEY Clearly the momentum is in our favor.
CHRIS COONEY Just from a pure fundraising capacity, we're trending in all the right directions, significant incre...
CHRIS COONEY Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.
CHRIS COONEY She seems to have a knack for finding loopholes for herself.
CHRIS COONEY It would have been nice to have it locked up at this point - not really for our sake but for the sak...
CHRIS COONEY We think the convention is wide open.
CHRIS COONEY People consult from any location on something that's on the drawing board and well before any constr...
CHRIS COONEY Gov. Rell has every right to bring anyone she needs to into the state of Connecticut to help her rai...
CHRIS COONEY The numbers continue to be a reflection of name recognition more than anything else, and they probab...
CHRIS COONEY It looked like to the organization that he wasn't progressing. But in 2004 he blossomed. With him it...
KEVIN COONEY No one wants you dropping dead at the table. If you're a picky eater, that's totally different.
MAUREEN COONEY Any reinsurance company that is involved in property reinsurance will probably feel some effects. Th...
BOB COONEY I think what attracted hedge funds (to the reinsurance business) was that these are random events th...
BOB COONEY It showed they were hasty thinkers.
MAUREEN COONEY He does not support the repeal of the estate tax. It's simply not true. I have to step back and wond...
CHRIS COONEY For the seniors, this win really does mean a lot because they've done the full arc. It's gratifying ...
PATRICK COONEY The digital media industry is rapidly undergoing a transformation that creates opportunities for com...
ERIC COONEY Delegates are currently meeting at 4pm to decide what to do from here.
MARTIN COONEY Delegates calmed the situation down by noting that the gesture from the Government was appreciated w...
MARTIN COONEY We are concerned about being in compliance with federal law.
PATRICK COONEY

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backy...
CAROLINE B. COONEY Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-ye...
JOAN GANZ COONEY I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on H...
JOAN GANZ COONEY There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on...
JOAN GANZ COONEY In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to te...
JOAN GANZ COONEY

They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Lo...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now t...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person an...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the goo...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.
CAROLINE B. COONEY It's so dire up there, our people are supposed to take their own blankets, flashlights, food and wat...
JODY VAN COONEY I took him in a couple of maps and told him here's how to get around.
JODY VAN COONEY We're still doing our regular things. The hurricane has not affected that.
JODY VAN COONEY The shelter will be open as long as they need it.
JODY VAN COONEY We're sending three more people out today.
JODY VAN COONEY

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintai...
GERRY ADAMS I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't...
GERRY HARVEY

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own term...
GERRY ADAMS Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplishe...
GERRY SPENCE

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there wh...
GERRY ADAMS I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, an...
GERRY SCHWARTZ We are very pleased with both the local and national response to our opening-night performance.
ALAN GERRY It is my fondest hope that this performing arts centre will recapture the magic of this historic sit...
ALAN GERRY We want it all to blend in with the landscape.
ALAN GERRY Your daughter was a great inspiration,
ALAN GERRY

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there...
GERRY ADAMS

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.
GERRY SIKORSKI I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
GERRY SPENCE

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
GERRY ADAMS

The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first ...
GERRY ADAMS Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.
GERRY MULLIGAN Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.
GERRY HARVEY A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably wh...
GERRY SCHWARTZ

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican obje...
GERRY ADAMS If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've be...
GERRY HARVEY

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined withi...
GERRY ADAMS I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age....
GERRY BECKLEY We're supposed to be an entrepreneurial company; we're meant to be expanding and looking for...
GERRY HARVEY The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.
GERRY MULLIGAN So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
GERRY MULLIGAN In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
GERRY MULLIGAN

If I didn't forgive the people who took me into the barracks and beat me unconscious over a peri...
GERRY ADAMS Kids go to school; we develop them at school. We develop them later on in the workplace so that we g...
GERRY HARVEY There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero - practically in the world.
GERRY HARVEY

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
GERRY ADAMS

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when w...
GERRY ADAMS

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war
GERRY ADAMS

Ku Klux Klan into Harlem.
GERRY ADAMS

At some point, when stretched so far, you break. We are not made of elastic.
GERRY ADAMS

Are the governments in charge or is Ian Paisley in charge?
GERRY ADAMS

The threat to this process doesn't come from the weapons of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) which ar...
GERRY ADAMS

I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus up...
GERRY ADAMS

I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice,
GERRY ADAMS

This is a very amateurish attempt to shoe-horn Sinn Fein into a position on policing,
GERRY ADAMS I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens...
GERRY HARVEY

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.
GERRY ADAMS People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn&#...
GERRY HARVEY My dementia hasn't just affected me - it's affected my friends and family, too.
GERRY ANDERSON To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
GERRY SPENCE

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, w...
GERRY ADAMS

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towar...
GERRY ADAMS

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilmen...
GERRY ADAMS Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.
GERRY MULLIGAN There he was with this gash under his nose, his face all bloody and glass all over him, checking on ...
GERRY STEMPLEWICZ You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.
ALAN GERRY I think our guys are very, very hungry, being so close and seeing it slip away. I'm anxious to see h...
GERRY KEESLING

It's long been an occupational hazard for me and for other Sinn Fein representatives to be held for ...
GERRY ADAMS Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds ...
GERRY BECKLEY That?s about a million times faster than predictions.
GERRY GILMORE

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.
GERRY ADAMS This sends a clear message to Mark Thompson that he is out of touch with his staff. We have been giv...
GERRY MORRISSEY In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students h...
GERRY SCHWARTZ

I think the best way for the IRA to leave the stage, ... is in a dignified manner that prevents any ...
GERRY ADAMS

I think there is a huge responsibility upon governments to understand the consequence of their decis...
GERRY ADAMS

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in ...
GERRY ADAMS

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, in...
GERRY ADAMS Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. ...
GERRY MULLIGAN He was very knowledgeable about their habits and what it would take to get rid of them.
GERRY JONES

negative, carping and begrudging campaign against Sinn Fein.
GERRY ADAMS

The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ire...
GERRY ADAMS

We are in this particular situation because once again unionists threaten the institutions and Dr. R...
GERRY ADAMS We're doing a joint investigation with the FBI - a criminal investigation, ... He's been suspended w...
GERRY WHITMAN It's very interesting, very showy.
GERRY MOORE It's tough to concentrate on other teams when you're struggling in your own conference. When they be...
GERRY MCNAMARA It's tough to concentrate on other teams when they're not in your conference and you are struggling ...
GERRY MCNAMARA This was really something special for me – getting the opportunity to come back and play before th...
GERRY MCNAMARA They have probably two or three of the best defenders in the league. It was difficult in the first h...
GERRY MCNAMARA We've shown glimpses of really good play, 30 to 35 minutes. Now we have to concentrate on playing 40...
GERRY MCNAMARA We can't use it as an excuse. I think if we can go to Villanova and Pitt and play well and win, we'l...
GERRY MCNAMARA It's been fun. If I didn't go to Syracuse, Notre Dame's a place I possibly could have gone. It's bea...
GERRY MCNAMARA I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
GERRY MULLIGAN I'm a tomorrow's person. I don't collect memorabilia.
GERRY ANDERSON Don't be lulled into complacency.
ALAN GERRY Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying ...
GERRY SPENCE

eight good years for Ireland.
GERRY ADAMS When you've got a major gas leak like that everybody working around it has to turn their radios off ...
GERRY MCGHEE

Everybody in there is waiting on David Trimble.
GERRY ADAMS I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I'...
GERRY HARVEY Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.
GERRY SCHWARTZ When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
GERRY MULLIGAN The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don't know if anyone in the media...
GERRY HARVEY These agents are safe and effective at providing relief in the short term from coughs due to upper r...
GERRY HARRINGTON

Here you see (Trimble) walking out of incomplete talks last week, orchestrating a campaign of mass i...
GERRY ADAMS We went down there and got it. The first stop we made was Taco Bell.
GERRY DAVIDSON I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made effort...
GERRY BECKLEY

There is bound to be distrust here. People have been hurt, people have been killed. There is bound t...
GERRY ADAMS We were curious to see where these things might come from in the first place, so it seemed that was ...
GERRY WRIGHT I feel great. Fantastic. It's a great feeling. We lost, and it was probably because of me.
GERRY MCNAMARA

Well, even if it should, and I certainly want to see an end to the IRA and an end to all of the arme...
GERRY ADAMS

There is no evidence to back that up. And, on the contrary, the IRA, in a number of high-profile sta...
GERRY ADAMS Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. ...
GERRY FLEMING Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.
GERRY SPENCE

come into the talks and move into substantive negotiations.
GERRY ADAMS

To bring about change in this situation, it needs to be driven. Mr. Trimble is a learner-driver, and...
GERRY ADAMS

Yes. Well, I know who they are alleged to be ... And I have asked questions just this week as to why...
GERRY ADAMS

I disagree with Teddy Kennedy, ... He was the only person to actually cancel an engagement. I think ...
GERRY ADAMS The ballot result indicates the level of dissatisfaction the staff have with the board. Instead of u...
GERRY MORRISSEY The ballot result indicates the level of dissatisfaction the staff have with the board.
GERRY MORRISSEY

Am I complicated? Nah, I'm interesting. I just like having a good time.

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