Joe Frazier Quotes

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.

Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

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

If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

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

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

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.

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

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

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

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

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

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.

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

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.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

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

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

There's one thing I don't ever think about: losing ... Instead, I think about how I'm going to win, and how I can do it the quickest way.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

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

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.