January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

WOULD BE A FAIR ASSESMENT OF JERRY'S TALENTS, AND YES I THINK SONNY
LISTON/QUARRY WOULD HAVE BEEN A WAR.IN SAY 1969, ANY EARLIER I WOULD HAVE TO GO
WITH SONNY AND THAT DAMN JAB.JERRY NEVER DUCKED SONNY HE JUST DID NOT HAVE THE
TITLE. TAKE CARE|
|7/19/02 12:51:29 PM|JIMMY DORSEY|VENTURA CALIFORNIA||RONNYRAINS@
YAHOO.COM||||10|FOLKS; I REALLY DO NOT HAVE ANY COMMENTS, ON THE BICKERING OF
THIS GREAT SITE, AND LATELY ITS BEEN GOOD,REMEMBER THIS SITE IS FOR LADIES AND
GENTLEMAN, AND SOME COMMENTS WILL ONLY COME BACK TO HURT YOURSELF.|
|7/19/02 01:08:37 PM|Sabrina Quarry-
Porter|Florida||sabrinalporter@aol.com||||10|Uncle Jerry had a wonderful singing
voice..I remember him singing alot to us kids when we were little..And my Dad
sang a song "Daddy Cool" and it fit perfect because he will always be OUR DADDY
COOL!!!!! I LOVE YOU DAD FOREVER!!!!!!|
|7/19/02 07:07:43 PM|Gerry Schultz|Ohio||jgschultz@firstam.com||||9|It is
interesting to hear of Jerry's other interests and talents. No one, of course,
is one-dimensional, though I get the feeling JQ's die was cast as early as age
five.I think I'd read somewhere was he was a pretty fair baseball player also. I
think if he'd arrived today instead of 1966 or so, Jerry might well have had a
better chance to see how well he could act or sing. While we've all had our
chances on the subject, again, I feel more than a few of Ring's Top heavies are
in groups side-by-side, with Jerry in a cluster of six or so outstanding guys
between #15- 20. If he'd been a little bigger, had boxed more and resisted the
brawl a little, and defended more, he'd have a belt, then where would you put
him? Many champions have said so. How many heavies since his time have been
clearly better? Pretty few, in my opinion. |
|7/20/02 12:11:26 AM|Paul Drolet|montreal||drolpaul@aol.com||||10|Gerry, you're
right. James claimed that Jerry excelled at everything he touched athletically.
He hit a hefty .375 in 2 years of American Legion Ball and could drive a golf
ball 300 yards down the middle of a fairway. And he was far from being onedimensional.
Apart from his singing ability, he had a fine mind and capacious
vocabulary. His mother, Arwanda, said he could scan a financial sheet and
instantly spot an error. He had rare mathematical acumen and a photographic
memory. Randy Gordon, the former editor of Ring magazine, told me it was
uncanny the way Jerry habitually knocked off the New York Times crossword in
less time than a four-round prelim. He certainly put the lie to the stereotype
of prizefighters as crude, unthinking louts. As you so ably put it,
the die was indeed cast early on. Despite the shroud of dementia that enveloped
Jerry in his last years, there were moments of lucidity. He prided himself
above all on what he had been, a prizefighter, and he was a damn good one at
that. The fact that he couldn't quite crack the heavyweight quinella of his day
- Ali and Frazier - means little in the grand scheme of things. Dante wrote:
"The victory lies in the struggle." Reflect on this for a moment: you're a
youngster and have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, nephritis.
Doctors declare your chances of survival are no better than 50/50. If you're
lucky enough to survive, the remaining days of your abbreviated life will be
spent as a semi-invalid. In a dozen years, you're a top-flight heavyweight
contender and you remain so for a half-dozen more. That is a jaw-dropping feat.
It was only one of many hurdles Jerry overcame. Dante's saying is a fitting
epitaph for both Jerry and his brother, the co-founder of TJQF, James Quarry.
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|7/20/02 02:45:09 PM|Sabrina Quarry-
Porter|Florida||sabrinalporter@aol.com||||10|Dad I miss you so much and Mom
too...all i've been doing is crying for days and i can't seem to stop.How do you
go on with life after losing both Mom & Dad in 1 month? Why did God do this to
us? I really don't understand...I know this isn't what this website is all
about, but i had to say this somehow...I LOVE YOU DAD FOREVER!!!!!|