"You got 3 things going against you: you're……" — Joe Frazier
"You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black"
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50 Quotes by Joe Frazier
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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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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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