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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

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

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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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Birth:	12th January, 1944
Death:	7th November, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Boxer

About

Joseph William Frazier, nicknamed "Smokin' Joe" was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA. He was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. He reigned as the undisputed heavyweight champion from 1970 to 1973, and as an amateur won a gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics. His last world title challenge came in 1975, but he was beaten by Ali in their brutal rubbermatch, the Thrilla in Manila.

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