I loved fighting… It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, ‘I’m the best. I matter. I am.’ — Joe Frazier

If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you’ll get found in the bright lights of the night. — Joe Frazier

I don’t want nothing comin’ at me that I can’t stop. — Joe Frazier

This is just another man, another fight, another payday. — Joe Frazier

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. — Joe Frazier

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’. — Joe Frazier

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart. — Joe Frazier

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. — Joe Frazier

I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities. — Joe Frazier

The boxing game has been good, so we need to give back. We have to teach young men how to be men. — Joe Frazier

When you work for me, you don’t say good things about Ali. — Joe Frazier

Work is the only meanin’ I’ve ever known. — Joe Frazier

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. — Joe Frazier

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.’ — Joe Frazier

Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you’re too big in your thoughts. — Joe Frazier

Had my own car at twelve years old. Left school in the tenth grade. Married when I was sixteen. Ain’t hard to figure out; I was a man at a very young age. — Joe Frazier

Life doesn’t run away from nobody. Life runs at people. — Joe Frazier

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win. — Joe Frazier

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. — Joe Frazier

Fightin’ George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen–wheeler comin’ at you. — Joe Frazier

I don’t want to be no more than what I am. — Joe Frazier

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it’s in my heart. — Joe Frazier

Work is the only meanin’ I’ve ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin’ on. — Joe Frazier

Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights. — Joe Frazier

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. — Joe Frazier

Courage is how bad you want it. — Joe Frazier

I’ve achieved ‘the American dream.’ I feel it’s my duty to help others achieve their vision, too–especially the youth. — Joe Frazier

Champions aren’t made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. What you cheat on in the early light of morning will show up in the ring under the bright lights. — Joe Frazier