Joe Frazier quotes

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. (Joe Frazier)
Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?
Joe Frazier
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
Joe Frazier
A sound body keeps a sound mind.
Joe Frazier
Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.
Joe Frazier
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.
Joe Frazier
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
I am who I am, and yes, I whipped Ali all three times.
Joe Frazier
I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
Joe Frazier
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
I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth. (Joe Frazier)
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
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.
Joe Frazier
The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
Joe Frazier
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
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
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
Joe Frazier
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
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
Joe Frazier
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
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion. (Joe Frazier)
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
I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.
Joe Frazier
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
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