"I know my destiny. I was born into……" — Joe Frazier
"I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi."
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50 Quotes by Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier has 50 quotes on this site.
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His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his…
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You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go…
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I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.
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If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.
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I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
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Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I…
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I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside…
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Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11…
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Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?
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Courage is how bad you want it.
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I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss,…
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I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the…
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More Alabama Quotes
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As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence…
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I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you…
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were…
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Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then…
— Jason Aldean
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running,…
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
— Fred Allen
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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern…
— John Henrik Clarke
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.
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It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief…
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