Joe Frazier Quotes - Page 2

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• Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

  Joe Frazier

  Fighting, Boxing, Streets

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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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• When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

  Joe Frazier

  Motivational, Sports, Brother

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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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• 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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• You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

  Joe Frazier

  Boxing, Black, Left Handed

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• 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

  Couple, Men, South Carolina

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

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• 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

  Garden, Long, Champion

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• If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.

  Joe Frazier

  Father, Fall, Boxing

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• 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

  Dad, Boys, Hands

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Guy

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

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• I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.

  Joe Frazier

  Heart, Talking, Might

  "Muhammad Ali on Joe Frazier: that's one helluva man and God bless him" by Simon Burnton, www.theguardian.com. November 08, 2011.

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