Joe Frazier Quotes
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This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.
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Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.
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I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn’t do their jobs.
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I don't want to be no more than what I am.
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I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.
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Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.
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I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.
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I don't mind people want to think Muhammad is the greatest fighter around. Everybody wants to make him great because of his mouth, that he was the best. He was good, but that doesn't make him great. I proved that.
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I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.
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I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.
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Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.
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When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
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I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.
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Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'
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I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
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When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.
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A sound body keeps a sound mind.
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My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.
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When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
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Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
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This is just another man, another fight, another payday.
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Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?
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I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
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The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.