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 hands
His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.
couple men south-carolina
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.
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.
want i-can
I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.
fighting men way
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
fighting boxing streets
Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
champion bright-lights made
Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.
song work men
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.
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.
kinda left scratched steel
My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.
good work
When you work for me, you don't say good things about Ali.
apart send twenty
Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
gym played
You can tell he's been in the gym just as much as he played hockey,