Quotes by Joe Frazier

About Joe Frazier:

Joseph William is one of only two boxers, the other being Ken Norton, to beat a peak Muhammad Ali.
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Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.

Joe Frazier

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

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, Y...

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

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

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

Joe Frazier

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

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 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

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

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

Joe Frazier

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

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

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

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

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

Joe Frazier

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameJoe Frazier
  • DescriptionAmerican boxer
  • BornJanuary 12, 1944
  • DiedNovember 7, 2011
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Boxer; Voice Actor; Sportsperson