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
champion heavyweights doubt
Joe Louis is the greatest heavyweight champion of all time. Rocky Marciano is second only to Louis. Where do I rate Ali? Somewhere below me. I beat him, and if I could beat him, no doubt Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano could have beaten him.
fighting people guy
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.
real men thinking
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.
would-be said has-beens
Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?
funny sports money
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
fighting opportunity mma
I loved fighting... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'
boxing black left
You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black
garden long champion
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.
jobs people guy
I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn't do their jobs.
boys boxing champion
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
inspirational-sports brother athlete
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.
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.