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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
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Joe Frazier
Age: 67 †
Born: 1944
Born: January 12
Died: 2011
Died: November 7
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Joseph William Frazier
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.
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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.'
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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.
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Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
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I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.
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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.
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You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black
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When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.
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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.
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A sound body keeps a sound mind.
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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 youth.
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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.
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I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.
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