Heavyweight Champion Quotes by 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…

— Joe Frazier

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

— Joe Frazier

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it…

— Joe Frazier

I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung…

— Joe Frazier

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…

— Joe Frazier

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

— Joe Frazier

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Joe Frazier

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

— Joe Frazier

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

— Joe Frazier

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

— Joe Frazier

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

— Joe Frazier

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

— Joe Frazier

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

— Joe Frazier