American - Athlete | January 12, 1944 - November 7, 2011
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
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The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
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Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?
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Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
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Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
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I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
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This is just another man, another fight, another payday.
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