Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier
Joseph William "Joe" Frazier, nicknamed Smokin' Joe, was an American professional boxer, Olympic gold medalist and undisputed world heavyweight champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981. Frazier was known for his sheer strength, durability, punch power and all-out relentless attack...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth12 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
sports winning thinking
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.
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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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Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.
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Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
fighting men way
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
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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.
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Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
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I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.
dream helping-others vision
I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth.
father fall boxing
If I said 'Fall down', he's gonna fall down. I'm still his father.
mind body sound
A sound body keeps a sound mind.
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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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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.
men rocks stronger
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'.