Joe Frazier Quotes

If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

If they [the Russians] want to fight with me, let them come and we see who wins.

In most cases, in this sport, for guys to advance in this sport, you gotta fight. If you don't fight, you're not making it, because it's too competitive.

Suffering makes me hungry. Suffering allows me to put some hurt in my opponent. It's a good thing.

I'm going to smash Wayne McCullough to bits. And when you see him smashed to bits, you're going to see the same thing I'd have done to Barry McGuigan, his friend and idol.

I love the sport. I love fighting. Fighting is my life.

Honestly, I want to wrestle everybody.

Football is like boxing because you have to know when it is time to attack.

I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.

I wrestled almost everybody.

I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.

I've got a powerful left hook and a lot of intensity. The intensity comes from the anger within.

I'll fight anybody.

I'm here to compete and to keep beating people up.

Everybody wants to see two warriors have a good fight.

I like big fights.

There are a lot of fighters, when I fight them, they stay hit forever and never fight again.

I'm available to fight anybody.

There is no room for sentiment in a boxing ring.