Joe Frazier

Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?

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

Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.

Joe Frazier

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

Joe Frazier

I believe in doing a job of work, not talking about it. 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 couldn’t go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.

Joe Frazier

I don’t mind people want to think Muhammad is the greatest fighter around. Everybody wants to make him great because of his mouth, that he was the best. He was good, but that doesn’t make him great. I proved that.

Joe Frazier

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

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.

Joe Frazier

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.

Joe Frazier