Joe Frazier Quotes

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

One handful of money is stronger than two handfuls of truth.

I can buy any man in the world.

…luxury is the result of wealth, or it makes wealth necessary. It corrupts both rich and poor, the one by possessing, the other by coveting. It sells out the fatherland to indolence and vanity; it deprives the State of all its Citizens by enslaving some of them to others and all of them to opinion.

Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.

My job is to work my best boxing in the ring.

I love to fight, and I'm looking forward to being back in the ring, getting the victory, and moving on to challenge for the World Heavyweight title.

Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket.

Sex and money always prowl in the penumbra of power.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

Madison Avenue makes us addicts of consumerism, using glass wampum to steal our capacity to direct our own lives.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Whenever there is money, power, and titles involved, players are going to be corrupt. That might be a political statement, but that's what it is for the athletes, too.

This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

Look at all the champs over time once they get the belt - they just fall off. I'm not one of those guys. The belt isn't my ultimate prize, it just looks good with all my other gold, chains, and diamonds.

DeGale's name has been mentioned to me and I'd fight him in a heartbeat.

I realised that I could either fight and get into trouble on the street or I could fight and get paid in the ring. I chose the ring.