Joe Frazier Quotes

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• His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.
• You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and…
• I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.
• If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.
• I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
• Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me.…
• I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my…
• 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…
• Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?
• Courage is how bad you want it.
• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that…
• I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
• 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…
• If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.
• 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…
• If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.
• Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.
• You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black
• Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
• 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…

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