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Joe Frazier Quotes
American
-
Athlete
January 12
, 1944 -
November 7
, 2011
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.
Joe Frazier
Man
,
Think
,
Down
,
Real Man
,
Feelings
,
Go
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
Joe Frazier
Mind
,
Champion
,
World
,
Boxing
,
Boy
,
Five
I don't want to be no more than what I am.
Joe Frazier
I Am
,
Want
,
More
,
Than
,
Am
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
Joe Frazier
Man
,
Fight
,
Me
,
Way
,
Make
,
Whip
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier
Money
,
Brain
,
Name
,
Book
,
You
,
Boxing
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
Joe Frazier
Life
,
People
,
Nobody
,
Run
,
Away
,
Runs
I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
Joe Frazier
Vision
,
American Dream
,
Help Others
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.
Joe Frazier
Water
,
Black
,
Destiny
,
Born
,
Know
,
White
Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.
Joe Frazier
God
,
Trust
,
Thoughts
,
Me
,
You
,
Down
I was never, ever once angry in the ring.
Joe Frazier
Angry
,
Ring
,
Never
,
Once
,
Ever
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.
Joe Frazier
Day
,
Tree
,
Mom
,
Me
,
Bag
,
Rocks
Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.
Joe Frazier
Man
,
You
,
True
,
Go
,
Mean
,
Got
Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
Joe Frazier
You
,
Street
,
Like
,
Being
,
Foreman
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.
Joe Frazier
Loved
,
Fight
,
People
,
Me
,
Thought
,
Eat
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.'
Joe Frazier
Me
,
You
,
Place
,
Wrong
,
Ring
,
Him
My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the South - first to New York, then to Philadelphia, where I found opportunity in the form of a PAL gym and my trainer, Yank Durham.
Joe Frazier
Family
,
Opportunity
,
Day
,
Support
,
Me
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.
Joe Frazier
Good
,
Man
,
Fighting
,
Chance
,
You
,
Down
Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
Joe Frazier
Life
,
Champion
,
Gold
,
World
,
Start
,
Long
Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?
Joe Frazier
Me
,
Said
,
Nothing
,
Always
,
Without
,
Him
Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
Joe Frazier
Fighting
,
Want
,
Back
,
Him
,
Years
,
Been
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.
Joe Frazier
Car
,
Age
,
Man
,
School
,
Young
,
My Own
I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
Joe Frazier
Heart
,
Step
,
Hurt
,
Want
,
Watch
,
Him
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
Joe Frazier
Brother
,
Win
,
Go
,
Out
,
Pity
This is just another man, another fight, another payday.
Joe Frazier
Man
,
Fight
,
Just
,
Another
,
Another Man
I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.
Joe Frazier
Time
,
Men
,
Up
,
Keep
,
Leaning
,
Carolina
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.
Joe Frazier
Together
,
Gold
,
Me
,
Down
,
Up
,
Gold Medal
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