January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

faced with the grind we all settle at some point. Some don't. Duran was the
greatest lightweight of all time and everyone knew it yet he had to have more so
he kept moving up. If you see Duran between fights he looks like the frito
bandido. Yet he worked his body to a fine tune ass whuppin machine. So its not
the genes its the heart. Pride. Jerry Quarry was all of that. |
|11/25/03 01:34:36
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|If Roberto Duran
had never been any more than a trash collector in Panama City, he would have
been the quickest handed, hardest hitting, toughest, meanest hombre even to
sling a garbage can. I've seen other people who never played sports who
surprised themselves and everyone around them with some feat of athleticism.
They had it, and didn't know it. What Duran ~also~ had was toughness, a
killer instinct rarely seen in the ring, a recognition of his abilities (he was
street fighting at four years old), and the drive to hone them into world
champion form. However, without the genes, he'd have been just another catcher
fighting undercards in seedy Central and South American fight
clubs.Character and hard work takes the edge of physical talent to atom
splitting sharpness, but without genetics, it'll only take an athlete so far.
However, just talent, even with drive isn't always the ticket to greatness. The
Chicago Bears immortal Dick Butkus said that without a lot of luck, he'd have
been a furniture mover. There are men playing basketball on some of your big
time inner city playgrounds on Summer evenings with NBA abilities, but different
fates kept this from happening.Stardom is a mixed bag, but no bums make
it to the top. Like the old joke goes, "Choose your parents well!" :-)|
|11/25/03 02:22:57 PM|KOOKOO|NY||KOOKOOCLOCK00@YAHOO.COM||||10|KENT, WHAT A POOR
EXCUSE, ROGER LEONARD, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE TOP PEOPLE FROM BOTH RACES, BLACKS
COME OUT ON TOP, NOT BASILO VS ROGER LEONARD, STOP WITH THIS PC CRAP KENT, IT
MAKES ME WANT TO VOMIT, SOME PEOPLE STINK, SOME PEOPLE THINK: AIN'T THAT RIGHT
KENT:) KOO KOO |
|11/25/03 04:14:00 PM|Evren|London||evren.bekir@btinternet.com||||10|Kent -
remember the competition I ran 2 years ago - the Heavyweight tournament? It
would be interesting to see what the outcome would be now with so many people
posting - I think I still have all the results somewhere!Massimo - I
found some footage on Primo Carnera that I may be able to copy for you - All
you'll need to do is send the covering charge.Regards Evren|
|11/25/03 04:48:57 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Evren, it
would be fun to start the tournament over again but with 32 fighters instead of
64. The last one ran too long.I realize brothers are not exactly alike,
probably even twins, but they are similar and if race makes someone a better
althlete, than why does one brother excel and the other doesn't? Maybe, as
someone here pointed out, Roger Leonard didn't have the drive that his brother
Ray had.I don't know if the best athletes of different races, blacks or
whites, come out on top more because most of the time in recent times it has
been more likely for blacks to dominate because there have been more of them.
If the numbers were equal, then we would see definite results.There are
now four white heavyweights at or near the top ten in the heavyweight division,
The Klitschko brothers, Joe Mesi, and Corrie Sanders. If none of these fighters
competes at the highest level, then Koo Koo's idea holds water but we saw
recently where V. Klitschko fought the best heavyweight of recent years, Lennox
Lewis, and he came close to winning, if not for cut, he might very well have
won. It can be said Klitschko caught Lewis on the way down but even a faded
Lewis still has the talent to beat 99 percent of the fighters out
there.Koo Koo, part of being politically correct is agreeing with people
just to be popular. I never do this and if people who have extreme views on
both sides of the spectrum have a problem with what I say, which has happened to
me at times, then I know I am doing something right, that I am being true to
myself, not catering to what someone else will like. |