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Joe Frazier Quotes

Work is the only meanin’ I’ve ever known.

– Joe Frazier

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

– Joe Frazier

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

– 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

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

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

– Joe Frazier

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

– 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

It was all about the ring. That’s where you got your brains shook and the money took.

– 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

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

– Joe Frazier

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

– Joe Frazier

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

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

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

– Joe Frazier

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

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

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

– Joe Frazier

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

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

– Joe Frazier

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

– 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

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

– Joe Frazier

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

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

– Joe Frazier

Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

– Joe Frazier