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Joe Frazier (Boxer)

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

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

— Joe Frazier money

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 war

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

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

— Joe Frazier dream

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 night

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

— Joe Frazier people

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

— Joe Frazier man

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

— Joe Frazier self

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

— Joe Frazier art

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

— Joe Frazier win

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

— Joe Frazier wit

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 love

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

— Joe Frazier man

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

— Joe Frazier art

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

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 art

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 right

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 kids

When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.

— Joe Frazier work

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

— Joe Frazier time

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

— Joe Frazier work

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

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 work

I don't want to be no more than what I am.

— Joe Frazier want

I dont think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man dont go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out theyre nothing.

— Joe Frazier man

Twenty years Ive been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.

— Joe Frazier art

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