Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?

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

Prove, Other, Putting

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

Ring, Lord, Tonight

I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth. Joe Frazier

American, Achieve, Feel

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. Joe Frazier

Book, Your, Took

Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me? Joe Frazier

Always, Been, Would

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart. Joe Frazier

Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do. Joe Frazier

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people. Joe Frazier

Run, Nobody, Away

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

Thought, Big, Other

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'. But you got a lot of tools workin' in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body shot. Joe Frazier

Body, Your Body, Your

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself. Joe Frazier

Man, Me, Himself

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

Destiny, South, Had

Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts. Joe Frazier

Trust, Thoughts, Big

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart. Joe Frazier

Me, Might, Like

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

Became, South, Led

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

Hang, Allowed, Punching

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win. Joe Frazier

Brother, Go, Pity

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, World, Six

This is just another man, another fight, another payday. Joe Frazier

Man, Another Man, Another

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

Couple, South, 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

Cut, Olympic, Had

There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'. Joe Frazier

Body, Your Body, Your

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. Joe Frazier

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye. Joe Frazier

Blind, Steel, Some

I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you. Joe Frazier

Back, Heavyweight, Nixon

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights. Joe Frazier

Along, Would, Unless

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