Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
This is just another man, another fight, another payday.
We're in Manila. Come on, gorilla; this is a thriller.
When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I'm out there to win.
Frazier was the 13th of 14 children born to Rubin and Dolly Frazier.
At age 15, Frazier left his hometown of Beaufort SC and headed north because he feared retaliation after beating up a white man in a fight.
Frazier and Ali's first bout in 1971 was dubbed the Fight of the Century by the media.
Frazier once had a singing group named Joe Frazier and the Knockouts.
After his first fight with Ali, Frazier checked into a hospital and rumors began circulating that he had died.
Frazier had a cameo appearance in the original movie Rocky.
Frazier currently owns a gym in Philadelphia and trains fighters.
Frazier weighed nearly 300 lbs. at one time during his youth and originally took up boxing as a mean of losing weight.
Frazier won the heavyweight title in 1970 when he knocked out former Ali sparring partner and close friend Jimmy Ellis in the fifth round.
Muhammad Ali and others accused Frazier of being an Uncle Tom before their first bout. This was nonsense because if anything Frazier knew much more about black ghetto life than Ali who had grown up in a middle class background.
Frazier's professional record was 32 wins, 4 losses, and 1 draw.
Muhammad Ali nicknamed Frazier "the Gorilla" before their third fight in Manila.
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