January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

agrees.|
|2/13/04 01:16:20 AM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|I hope I
didn't step on any toes in my last post by repeating something I heard quite a
few months ago. I would hate to upset anyone in the Quarry family because, even
though I should know better, Mrs. Quarry's comment was likely off of the record
and I might have shown more thought before repeating it, especially at this
later date. I would like to express my apologies if anyone was offended. The
Quarrys are fine people and they should be treated as such.I was just
stating that I think the Quarrys don't want any more of their kin to step into
the ring. but only they can say this is true, not me. |
|2/13/04 07:12:55 AM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|ANGELO: thanks
for your comments. If Tyson was sincere about making the most out of his last
few years in boxing, he should go to an honest, old-timer like Angelo Dundee and
tell that that he knows he has very limited time left in boxing and wants some
honest management and training. In that way, he will go the furthest and not
have to watch his money. Just concentrate on what made him great in the first
place.|
|2/13/04 09:23:31
AM|Roadscholarette|Chicago||roadscholarette@hotmail.com||||10|>Loyalty is
loyalty and don't give me any of that "social graces" crap.When judging
public figures, social graces, the brief exposure via sound bytes, are almost
always all we know of the person, other than anecdotal innuendo, which ~can~
spin out of control, like gossip in high school. Mike Tyson do doubt has many
personal problems, possibly some chemical imbalances, which Zocor is only
partially able to curb, but he's also obviously a very impulsive person, who
says whatever enters his mind. There's an old saying, "Hell has nothing on the
everyday thoughts of the average man and woman." When Thomas Hearns began coming
of age in the big time, he saw a "social coach," someone who helped him conduct
media interviews, learn what to say, what not to say, how to say it, so he
didn't appear inarticulate, even gnomish. MT might have benefitted from such
counseling.I don't know all the true private ins and outs of his range
of management. It would seem he did better early on than later, in terms of
quality of association, but who knows? The King money had to be mighty
appealing, and I'd have to wonder why his first group wasn't getting it for this
immensely talented man? Maybe Mike wondered the same thing. Perhaps there were
things that happened that didn't warrant further loyalty. Who knows?Mike
Tyson does have a faculty for destroying sympathy just when he starts to garner
it. His entire life and the resultant inner demons have made him something of a
wild animal in many ways, yet you can still see glimmers of someone who wants to
be otherwise. |
|2/13/04 12:34:07 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|Also, a
point to be made is that Thomas Hearns had the motivation and good sense to see
a "social coach" and Tyson probably would have very little interest or patience
for something like this. I don't view this exercise as humbling for the
athletes at all. To the contrary, even Ivy League educated executives take
training courses for various reasons, including interacting better with media,
labor negotiators, etc. The smartest, best trained people in the world could
benefit from a little advice to make them look their best in front of the
public. More power to Hearns (I didn't know he had done this) and to Tyson---
all I could say is it wouldn't have hurt to do the same.|
|2/13/04 12:48:07 PM|John Gerard|NYC||rock289z@yahoo.com||||10|What a load of
nonsense about Tyson. His problems don't stem from a lack of social graces they
stem from being an unappreciate person who dumped the people who brought him to
the top and made him a millionaire simply because Don King promised MORE money
and used racism as a wedge. I know plenty of guys from the ghetto who also lack
social graces but they have enough class to keep their friends and remember who
was good to them on the way up. All the sound byte prepping in the world won't