Top 100 Frazier's Quotes
#1. Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.
Robert Goulet
#2. Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town
Muhammad Ali
#3. It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.
Robert Goulet
#4. Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.
Joe Frazier
#5. I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
Joe Frazier
#6. I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out.
Ian Frazier
#7. And all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.
Charles Frazier
#8. Love isn't about wanting a hero, it's about wanting to be one for the other person.
T.M. Frazier
#9. It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.
Charles Frazier
#10. It's not my place to compare myself to greats like Tyson, Frazier or men like that. But I would look at a fighter like Evander Holyfield. He's a great heavyweight who worked his way up through the weight classes to become champion and had to beat bigger men along the way.
Wladimir Klitschko
#11. Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
Ian Frazier
#12. It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.
Joe Frazier
#13. People don't change, Lola said. Maybe you're still young enough to pretend that's not true. People are who they are, and everybody around them has to take it or go somewhere else.
Charles Frazier
#14. That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.
Charles Frazier
#15. After she had licked the last white drop of the ice cream, she reached out her cone to Mrs. McKennet and said, Here's your little horn back.
Charles Frazier
#16. You know what's worse than being a sick son-of-a-bitch? Knowing you're a sick son-of-a-bitch.
T.M. Frazier
#17. Stoudemire is like Alonzo Mourning and my old teammates Willis Reed and Dave DeBusschere. He's aggressive and make things happen. He's always hustling and muscling, hounding and pounding guys into submission.
Walt Frazier
#19. Yeah, man. That's fucking amazing. Yes, that. I'll help you. We can do it together. You run the shit. I'll help you run the shit. Then, we'll buy a big 'ole Star Wars stilt home and live there, and no one will be able tell us what to fucking do ever again!
T.M. Frazier
#20. 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 have too many instruments up there workin'.
Joe Frazier
#21. Core Performance Endurance, and Runner's World
Matt Frazier
#22. This place was as confusing as King. Hard edges, unfinished and unrefined, yet mysterious and beautiful in it's own way.
T.M. Frazier
#23. Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.
Charles Frazier
#24. I don't think anyone's had the stranger danger talk with him. Because rule number one is that you don't jump into strange unmarked vans with the bad guys,
T.M. Frazier
#25. If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.
Jan Frazier
#26. It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.
Charles Frazier
#27. Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
Ian Frazier
#28. I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.
Joe Frazier
#29. Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together.
Charles Frazier
#30. What they need is everything even and smooth. Not love or hate, pleasure or pain, hope or fear, safety or danger. Nobody kissing your cheek at bedtime till you tingle with pleasure in your stomach, and nobody making you bleed. Accept one and you have to accept the other, that's the deal.
Charles Frazier
#31. Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
#32. Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, Go home.
Charles Frazier
#33. Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, had quite an interesting life, shot through with coincidences. Stanley Ann was some mom
and by 'some mom,' it's meant that she was a globetrotting, oil-rep-marrying, CIA-front-employed, twelve-language-speaking, International Mom of Mystery.
Mondo Frazier
#34. That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.
George Foreman
#35. She said being inside a language was like being in a person's house - after a while you came to see why the teapot was where it was.
Ian Frazier
#36. What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you.
Charles Frazier
#37. Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off
an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.
Ian Frazier
#38. A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
Ian Frazier
#39. That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on
Charles Frazier
#40. I finally realized that it's possible to love within a space that sometimes holds nothing but emptiness.. or nothing but darkness.
After all, we all have darkness within us.
Some of us more than others.
T.M. Frazier
#41. The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.
Charles Frazier
#42. 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 the quickest way.
Joe Frazier
#43. They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!
Charles Frazier
#44. 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 South - first to New York, then to Philadelphia, where I found opportunity in the form of a PAL gym and my trainer, Yank Durham.
Joe Frazier
#45. Than appreciating the calm voice of Charleston during an evening walk along the Battery with Fort Sumter off in the distance, the great white houses at one's back, palmettos rattling their leaves in a sea breeze.
Charles Frazier
#46. That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.
Charles Frazier
#47. Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.
Ian Frazier
#48. But one day leads to another, and so on. No way around it. It's that merciless thing that time does.
Charles Frazier
#49. Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever.
Charles Frazier
#50. The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
Joe Frazier
#51. I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him.
Muhammad Ali
#53. Depressed beyond what I'd previously thought possible, I stripped, showered, and slipped on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt and headed for my mom's, trying to figure out why a bank would charge twenty dollars for insufficient funds when they know you don't have it.
Kit Frazier
#54. 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.
Joe Frazier
#55. One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.
Ian Frazier
#56. Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
Muhammad Ali
#57. Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
E. Franklin Frazier
#58. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing with you, pup." King confessed. "You make me fucking crazy and I feel shit that I can't--" He paused. "Prison fucked me up, made me rethink things, but you're managed to fuck me up more than prison ever did. For some reason, I want you around.
T.M. Frazier
#59. Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.
Charles Frazier
#60. While Frazier was a man of few words / Ali was a world of mouth / but he found his place in history / Now his heart can express him well / Joe Frazier was a silent warrior / whom Ali silently admired / One could not rise without the other
Muhammad Ali
#61. Love. It was the only kind of torture I wasn't familiar with.
T.M. Frazier
#62. My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.
Joe Frazier
#63. ...I had always believed prayer ought to be conducted on our feet rather than on our knees, since God seems in all other departments of life to require us to stand upright and account for ourselves.
Charles Frazier
#64. Siberia is so big, it's almost more an idea than a place
Ian Frazier
#65. Like something happened to Preppy. That wasn't your fault, dick slick. It was mine. I literally couldn't dodge that bullet. See what I did there? Oh my shit I'm hilarious.
T.M. Frazier
#66. We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start achieving your goals.
Bianca Frazier
#67. Arrogance is trying to convince others you're more than who they know you are.
Bianca Frazier
#68. Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
Joe Frazier
#69. Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.
Charles Frazier
#71. What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?
Charles Frazier
#73. I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
Ian Frazier
#74. He looked tired. And not the kind of tired you feel after a long day, but the kind of tired that lingers no matter how much sleep you get or how much coffee you ingest. The kind of tired that is less about rest and more about unrest. I
T.M. Frazier
#75. We're not given forever. We're given just a finite amount of time on this earth. It's up to us to decide how we are going to spend that time, and who we are going to spend it with.
T.M. Frazier
#76. She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.
Charles Frazier
#77. The path to contentment was to abide by one's own nature and follow it's path.
Charles Frazier
#78. 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 you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights.
Joe Frazier
#79. We may not have been perfect, or even acceptable by anyone else's standards. But together, we were perfect.
Together, we were just us.
Battered and broken. Dark and difficult. Impulsive and scared.
T.M. Frazier
#80. It may never get easier, but it's a good reminder of why you are here and why you can never go back.
T.M. Frazier
#81. Things doesn't always start out the way we want them to. It's how they end that's important.
T.M. Frazier
#82. They call the figure that takes our loved ones from this world the angel of death, when really he's just a corrupt errand boy who hides deep within his hood when he comes to take souls to the other side.
T.M. Frazier
#83. In the hovering between sleep and wakefulness, lucid but dreaming, Luce's mind got away from her, and all kinds of empty shit she had meant to put entirely behind her forever swam up and lived in her head again.
Charles Frazier
#84. A revenge kill is the best kind of kill.
But a revenge kill for your family, with your woman's permission?
That's borderline erotic.
T.M. Frazier
#85. Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
Muhammad Ali
#86. Frazier was not a big man at all. Frazier was about 5'9, but he would make anyone run. Put up your dukes and cover up because he's coming. He never backed up from anyone.
George Foreman
#87. Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.
Charles Frazier
#88. Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
Muhammad Ali
#89. [No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
Charles Frazier
#90. I've done it all and you look at me like I'm somehow a good person and it makes me want to tear my fucking hair out because it's all a lie. The truth is that I'm not the good guy. I'm the fucking bad guy,
T.M. Frazier
#91. The Negro does not want love. He wants justice ... I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.
E. Franklin Frazier
#92. There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
Ian Frazier
#94. Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
Charles Frazier
#95. I once wondered if two broken souls could heal one another, I hoped the answer was yes.
T.M. Frazier
#96. Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at.
Charles Frazier
#97. We're not just going to have a life, remember? We're going to live.
T.M. Frazier
#98. Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
Ian Frazier
#99. I respect that you want to protect your niece. You know, I didn't want my daughter to become a boxer. Neither did Mohammad. But Joe Frazier, on the other hand, he had his baby girl boxing in the crib.
George Foreman
#100. If I had a brother in jail and one in Georgia, I'd try to bust the one out of Georgia first.
Charles Frazier
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