Author: Joe Frazier

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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.

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.

- Joe Frazier

It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.

It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.

- Joe Frazier

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

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

- Joe Frazier

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.

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

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.

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

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.

I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.

- Joe Frazier

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.

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.

- Joe Frazier

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

- Joe Frazier

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