Quotes by Joe Frazier - Page 2

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 / Professional Boxer
Champion
Garden
Gloves
Gold
Long
Medal
Tokyo
Life Start World
Ali
Champ
Life Champion World
Fought
Heavyweight
Gold Medal
Heavyweight Champion
Joe
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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.
Joe Frazier / Professional Boxer
Men
Dirt
Feelings
Prove
Real
Shouting
Thinking
Nothing
Go
Around
He
Down
Guys
Making
Other
Putting
Real Man
Something
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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.
Joe Frazier / Professional Boxer
Fighter
Muhammad
Best Good Great
Mouth
Proved
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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.
Joe Frazier / Professional Boxer
Jobs
Guy
People
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Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.
Joe Frazier / Professional Boxer
Champion
Doubt
Heavyweights
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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.
Joe Frazier / Professional Boxer
Alabama
Animosity
Carolina
Folks
Georgia
Hatred
Lines
Mississippi
South
South Carolina
Water
Coloured
Tougher
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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 / Professional Boxer
Carolina
Gym
Negative
Philadelphia
South Carolina
Blacks
Family Opportunity Me
Forces
Led
Pal
Trainer
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You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.
Joe Frazier / Professional Boxer
Dark
Light
Spiritual
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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 / Professional Boxer
Daughter
Champion
Difficult
Garden
House
President
President Nixon
Said
White
White House
Ali
Around
Back
Beat
Came
Washington
Heavyweight
Give
Heavyweight Champion
Him
Licence
Meeting
Nixon
Walked
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I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."
Joe Frazier / Professional Boxer
Mom
Brother
Hands
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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 / Professional Boxer
Body
Happens
Instruments
Lungs
Stronger
Tools
Your Body
Shot
Lived
Head
Rock
Places
Soften
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