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A sound body keeps a sound mind.

Joe Frazier

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Joe Frazier
Age: 67 †
Born: 1944
Born: January 12
Died: 2011
Died: November 7
Actor
Boxer
Professional Boxer
Voice Actor
Beaufort
South Carolina
Joseph William Frazier
Mind
Keeps
Sound
Body

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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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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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Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.
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I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but its in my heart.
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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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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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Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
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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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I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.
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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 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 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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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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Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
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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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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'.
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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.
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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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If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night.
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