Quote by Gerry Cooney
I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rou

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

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Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning. – Gerry Cooney

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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

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I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and thats how it started. – Gary Numan

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My dads side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. Theres an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. Its very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. Its very warm, its very up, its very down. I would celebrate that. – Nick Clegg

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My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallaghers mum – she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs. – Danny Boyle

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As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. – James Ellroy

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