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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

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World

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" When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win. "

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" Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do. "

" I've achieved 'the American dream.' I feel it's my duty to help others achieve their vision, too - especially the youth. "

" I had my Olympic gold medal cut up into eleven pieces. Gave all eleven of my kids a piece. It'll come together again when they put me down. "

" I went to see President Nixon at the White House. It wasn't difficult to get a meeting because I was heavyweight champion of the world. So I came to Washington and walked around the garden with Nixon, his wife and daughter. I said: I want you to give Ali his licence back. I want to beat him up for you. "

" 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. "

" My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the South - first to New York, then to Philadelphia, where I found opportunity in the form of a PAL gym and my trainer, Yank Durham. "

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

" My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye. "

" This is just another man, another fight, another payday. "