Joe Frazier Quotes

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

• Up
• Kids
• Together
• Gold

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • True
  • Champion
  • Watching

• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Time
  • Children
  • Rest

• Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Face
  • Paint
  • Inside

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Human
  • Afraid
  • Racism

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
  • Working
  • Back

• In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Vegas

• It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religion
  • Concerned

• I tend to stay away from the comics.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Away
  • Stay
  • Tend

• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Liberty

• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Lived
  • Loser
  • Tombstone

• In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Fire
  • Yourself

• The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Why
  • Black
  • Daily

• I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Thoughtful

• Usually I get up at 5, it’s a habit I have had since I was in the RSS. I don’t need much sleep, three hours is enough for me. My friends and my doctors complain that it is too less, but it is sufficient for me. You can see, I have worked all day but even now I am sitting here easily talking to you.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Sleep

• The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

  

  Jerry Only
  • Kids
  • Today

• If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Giving

• In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

  

  Jorge Paulo Lemann
  • Life
  • Long

• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• 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
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Together