Joe Frazier Quotes

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights.

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.

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.

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

Courage is how bad you want it.

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

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.

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 loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'

A sound body keeps a sound mind.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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'.

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

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.

My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.

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.

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