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Joe Frazier
American
Athlete
Born:
Jan 12
,
1944
Died:
Nov 7
,
2011
Ali
Go
Good
Man
Me
You
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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
Man
Feelings
Nothing
Down
Think
Other
Out
Something
Guys
Dirt
He
Putting
Around
Making
Real
Prove
Go
Real Man
Shouting
Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.
Joe Frazier
God
Me
Thoughts
You
Trust
Sometimes
Big
Down
Too
Puts
His
Hand
Trust Me
Your
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
Me
You
Ali
Ring
Beat
Wrong
Wrong Place
Him
Lord
Just
Place
Your
Even
Tonight
Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But what would he have been without me?
Joe Frazier
Me
Nothing
Ali
Would
Would-Be
He
Him
Without
Said
Always
Been
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
Day
Mom
Me
Old
Tree
Corn
Spend
Punching
Take
Allowed
Bag
Hour
Moss
Rocks
Hang
Heavy
Then
Fill
The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
Joe Frazier
Me
Man
Fight
Way
Make
Himself
Whip
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
Joe Frazier
Water
Black
Hatred
White
Carolina
Destiny
Folks
Born
Tougher
Coloured
Had
Animosity
Know
Mississippi
Came
Lines
South
Georgia
South Carolina
Than
Alabama
Twenty years I've been fighting Ali, and I still want to take him apart piece by piece and send him back to Jesus.
Joe Frazier
Fighting
Ali
Back
Take
Piece
Him
Still
Been
Years
Send
Want
Apart
Twenty
Jesus
Ali would not be Ali unless I had come along. Him and me had three fights.
Joe Frazier
Me
Three
Ali
Unless
Would
Had
Along
Come
Him
Fights
I was never, ever once angry in the ring.
Joe Frazier
Angry
Once
Ring
Never
Ever
Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
Joe Frazier
You
Like
George
Foreman
George Foreman
Being
Street
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
Joe Frazier
Win
Out
Brother
Go
Pity
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
Me
Fight
People
Thought
Big
Other
Way
Would
Eat
Guy
Guys
Around
Big Guy
Big Guys
Up
Bigger
Loved
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
You
Man
Stronger
Too
Head
Instruments
Rock
Up
Than
Places
Body
Your
Your Body
Hard
Many
Actually
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
Big
Saw
Cross
He
Boy
His
Hand
Left
Use
Used
Dad
Right
Pull
Right Hand
I hated Ali. God might not like me talking that way, but it's in my heart.
Joe Frazier
God
Me
Heart
Ali
Way
Hated
Like
Talking
Might
It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.
Joe Frazier
You
Money
Took
Ring
About
Got
Brains
Shook
Where
Your
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
Man
Age
School
Old
Car
Own
Young
Out
Married
My Own
Had
Tenth
Years
Left
Very
Grade
Sixteen
Young Age
Hard
Figure
Twelve
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'. But you got a lot of tools workin' in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body shot.
Joe Frazier
You
Man
Heart
Stronger
Too
Soften
Tools
See
Head
Instruments
Rock
Got
Lot
Up
Than
Happens
Places
Shot
Body
Your
Your Body
Hard
Many
Lived
Liver
Actually
Lungs
This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.
Joe Frazier
Good
You
Man
Fighting
Down
Once
Something
He
Stuff
Him
How
Prove
Ultimate
Agree
Chance
I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.
Joe Frazier
School
Everyone
Schools
Educate
Go
Whites
Now
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