Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion. Joe Frazier More Quotes by Joe Frazier More Quotes From 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 champion light morning You can map out a light plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to the reflexes you developed in training. That's where roadwork shows - the training you did in the dark of the mornin' will show when you're under the bright lights. Joe Frazier light spiritual dark If you cheat in the dark of the morning, you'll get found in the bright lights of the night. Joe Frazier dark morning night Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people. Joe Frazier running motivational people Courage is how bad you want it. Joe Frazier want If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do. Joe Frazier walks feels inspirational 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 real men thinking 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. Joe Frazier heavyweights champion doubt Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me? Joe Frazier has-beens would-be said I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities. Joe Frazier boxing body cities Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there. Joe Frazier bright-lights champion made 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 winning sports thinking 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 mma fighting opportunity Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. Joe Frazier money sports funny I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see." Joe Frazier mom brother hands A sound body keeps a sound mind. Joe Frazier sound-body sound mind 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 guy fighting people 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 work song men I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop. Joe Frazier i-can want I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart. Joe Frazier hurt heart watches
