Joe Frazier Quotes

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• 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

  Morning, Light, Champion

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• 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

  Spiritual, Dark, Light

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• If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.

  Joe Frazier

  Morning, Dark, Night

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• Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

  Joe Frazier

  Motivational, Running, People

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• Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.

  Joe Frazier

  Champion, Bright Lights, Made

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• Courage is how bad you want it.

  Joe Frazier

  Want

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• 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

  Inspirational, Walks, Feels

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• 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

  Sports, Winning, Thinking

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• 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

  Real, Men, Thinking

  "Muhammad Ali on Joe Frazier: that's one helluva man and God bless him" by Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

  Joe Frazier

  Funny, Sports, Money

  "Underdog Boxing: Pumped up for the Pacquiao-Mosley undercard fights" by Carlo L.Pamintuan, www.gmanetwork.com. February 10, 2011.

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• A sound body keeps a sound mind.

  Joe Frazier

  Mind, Sound Body, Sound

  "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin' Joe Frazier" by Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.

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• I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.

  Joe Frazier

  Cities, Boxing, Body

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• 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

  Fighting, Opportunity, Mma

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• 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

  Champion, Heavyweights, Doubt

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• 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 sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

  Joe Frazier

  Would Be, Said, Has Beens

  "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin’ Joe Frazier". Interview with Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.

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• I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

  Joe Frazier

  Hurt, Heart, Watches

  "More Cries, More Whispers" by Caryn James, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 1999.

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• Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

  Joe Frazier

  Song, Work, Men

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• 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

  Cute, Baby, Calling

  "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin' Joe Frazier" by Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.

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• 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

  Fighting, People, Guy

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

  Joe Frazier

  Boys, Boxing, Champion

  Interview With Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men.

  Joe Frazier

  Men, Games, Boxing

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• Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

  Joe Frazier

  Known

  "Joe Frazier, Ex-Heavyweight Champ, Dies at 67" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. November 7, 2011.

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• 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

  Kids, Cutting, Together Again

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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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.

  Joe Frazier

  Sports, Winning, Hands

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