January 2002 - March 2004 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

music. |
|12/11/03 01:00:03 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclcock000@yahoo.com||||10|KENT, I’M SURE
THAT PEOPLE BOTHERED THE HELL OUT OF JERRY TALKING ABOUTMUHAMMAD ALI AND JOE
FRAZIER, I HEARD HE PLAYED GUITAR ALSO, THIS IS THE THING MOST PEOPLE MISS
WHEN THEY LOOK AT JERRY QUARRY, THIS MAN COULDHAVE BEEN ANYTHING, HE HAD A
GREAT MIND, YOU COULD TELL BY LISTENING TOHIM THIS WAS NO AVERAGE MAN, WE’VE
ALL HEARD THAT ALI STORY, LETS GET JERRY'S STORY OUT SOMEHOW, THE MOVIES
ABOUT ALI WOULD BE NOTHING COMPARED TOTO THE ROLLACOASTER LIFE OF JERRY
QUARRY|
|12/11/03 04:53:05 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|One of the
saddest things about Jerry losing his congnitive ability was the fact that he
had so much to offer---the music and also his commentary during boxing
broadcasts. He was an intelligent, articulate guy who had "insiders" viewpoints
of boxing. I think that had he retired earlier (much) and stayed retired, he
would have become an elder boxing stateman and stayed in the public eye. I
would LOVE to hear Jerry's take on today's heavyweights---even guys from the
80's to the present. |
|12/11/03 07:52:31
PM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|When Joe Frazier
said once, "I wish I was smarter, had a degree," I hope someone explained the
difference between intelligence and education. I think many people with multiple
degrees would trade them for the richness of Joe's life. I think with any
fighter, even those showing not a lot of multiple dimensions in their
personalities, the person themselves would be more interesting to explore than
just their careers as fighters. Wasn't Jerry also able to do the NY Times
crossword? I do crosswords every day, and this is no small feat.After
the second day at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee was enthusing to his top general,
James Longstreet about the day to come (fateful, as it turned out), saying
"...as close as it was today." Longstreet answered, "It wasn't that close, sir,"
and Lee became angry. I didn't know Jerry Quarry, and even those who were close
to him may not have known all of his secret feelings about his fights. Perhaps
he saw the really important ones against the real t-rexes (Ali, Frazier, Norton,
and Foreman, even though he didn't fight him) as being far different than the
results. Who knows? I don't. Just wondering.|
|12/11/03 09:09:07 PM|kookoo|ny||kookooclock000@yahoo.com||||10|everybody can't
be a genius, if joe frazier had not been a fighter i don't think he would have
done too good, but i could be wrong as a man with that kind of determination
might make something happen one way or another, i think that as of the last 7 or
8 yrs fraziers health has not been very good, i've seen pictures of him he looks
very frail, he is diabetic. |
|12/11/03 09:49:29 PM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com||||10|There is
often a difference between intelligence and education. Lots of academics might
have high IQs, but many don't have any common sense. These people focus all
their attention on one subject to the exclusion of everything else. While they
become an expert in that particular subject, they often know nothing about
anything else. Many academics have poor motor skills as well. They are boring
one dimensional people. HOWEVER, Massimo is the obvious exception. |
|12/12/03 05:39:36 AM|Massimo|Rome||4||||10|I don't believe in IQ, I'm not going
to explain why I don't believe in them because I don't want to offend anybody. I
truly believe that intelligence is essentially a genetic matter ! Nobaby can
decide to become Mozart or Fermi or Leopardi. At six years old of age Mozart
already was a much better musician than Arturo Toscanini at 50 or Von Karajan at
50 because he had a gift that almost nobody has: THE CREATIVITY. A lot of people
can learn how to play an istrument decently but only A FEW HAVE THE CREATIVITY
GIFT. This is true in music, physics, in everything. I know physicists that,
with hard work, have learnt how to use very very difficult Mathematics but they
have never had an original idea ! There are other phisicists that have a smaller