I loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali?… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring,… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a… — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
I want the fight, cause I didn't want the reputation of trying to duck or shunt anybody. I'm a fighting champ. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me? — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win. — Joe Frazier Copy Share Image
