Joe Frazier Quotes
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It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
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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.
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Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
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Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.
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I was never, ever once angry in the ring.
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Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
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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.
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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.
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The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
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Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
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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.
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Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
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Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
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I am who I am, and yes, I whipped Ali all three times.