Top 75 Quotes About Joe Frazier
#1. Joe Frazier is ugly. He has no rhythm, no footwork, no class, he cannot talk.
Muhammad Ali
#2. 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
#3. Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
Muhammad Ali
#4. I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.'
George Foreman
#5. That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.
George Foreman
#6. I have more fans and more followers and more supporters. Because the people who actually saw the Joe Frazier Muhammad Ali fight, they saw me win at least nine rounds - the people who know boxing.
Muhammad Ali
#7. This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get interest in a subject like this. He couldn't talk about it.
Muhammad Ali
#8. There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.
Chris Crutcher
#9. Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.
Jim Bailey
#10. In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.
Wladimir Klitschko
#11. 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
#12. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.
Muhammad Ali
#13. I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.
Muhammad Ali
#14. Joe Frazier was the easiest boxer to work with that I ever trained.
Eddie Futch
#15. Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.
Robert Goulet
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
Muhammad Ali
#19. You wouldn't meet a Joe Frazier down today and then up tomorrow, said hello to big shots then ignore someone on the lower level; he was the most consistent human being. What you see is what you get.
George Foreman
#20. The roughest and toughest fighter I fought was Joe Frazier
Muhammad Ali
#21. Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#22. I smoke on the mic like Smokin' Joe Frazier,
The hell raiser, raisin' hell with the flavor.
Inspectah Deck
#23. I wanted to be champ of the world, but I kept hoping something would happen to Frazier. I didn't want to fight him. Nobody wanted to fight Joe Frazier.
George Foreman
#24. Yeah, I thought I could be heavyweight champion of the world when I was working with Ali and Joe Frazier and Earnie Shavers and all those guys. Because they were older than me and I was doing my thing.
Larry Holmes
#25. I don't want to be no more than what I am.
Joe Frazier
#26. The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
Joe Frazier
#27. I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
Joe Frazier
#28. I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.
Joe Frazier
#29. 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 bigger guys.
Joe Frazier
#30. This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.
Joe Frazier
#31. I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.
Joe Frazier
#32. Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
Joe Frazier
#33. It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.
Joe Frazier
#34. His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.
Joe Frazier
#35. Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
Joe Frazier
#36. I was never, ever once angry in the ring.
Joe Frazier
#37. I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.
Joe Frazier
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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 cute.
Joe Frazier
#41. This is just another man, another fight, another payday.
Joe Frazier
#42. I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down.
Joe Frazier
#43. 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 job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn't do their jobs.
Joe Frazier
#44. I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.
Joe Frazier
#45. I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.
Joe Frazier
#46. Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.
Joe Frazier
#47. Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
Joe Frazier
#48. I loved fighting ... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'
Joe Frazier
#49. When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.
Joe Frazier
#50. 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 he was the best. He was good, but that doesn't make him great. I proved that.
Joe Frazier
#51. Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
Joe Frazier
#52. 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
#53. 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. 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 the ring under the bright lights.
Joe Frazier
#56. When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.
Joe Frazier
#57. Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?
Joe Frazier
#58. If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.
Joe Frazier
#59. I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.
Joe Frazier
#60. Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
Joe Frazier
#61. I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
Joe Frazier
#62. Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.
Joe Frazier
#63. 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
#64. My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.
Joe Frazier
#65. Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'
Joe Frazier
#66. 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
#67. Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
Joe Frazier
#68. When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
Joe Frazier
#69. Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
Joe Frazier
#70. The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.
Joe Frazier
#71. Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain't hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age.
Joe Frazier
#72. If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.
Joe Frazier
#73. You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black
Joe Frazier
#74. Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.
Joe Frazier
#75. 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 beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.
Joe Frazier
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