[Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on his opponent. Humiliated him. Joe had the heart of a lion but verbally he was out of his depth when Ali got going. One time, as fight day approached, Ali spotted Frazier on a hotel balcony, grabbed a security guard's gun and fired some rounds at him. Everybody knew it wasn't live ammo but it still startled the hell out of Joe.] Go back in your hole, Gorilla, ... You gonna scare the people! Come out again and I'm gonna kill ya before time! |
a fierce fighter and a man of peace. |
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. |
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. |
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. |
All actions are judged by the motive prompting them |
All the water in the world, however hard it tries, can never sink the smallest ship unless it gets inside, and all the evil in the world, the blackest kind of sin, can never hurt you in the least, unless you let it in |
And if God ever calls me to a holy war, I want Joe fighting beside me. |
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far. |
Be in the world like a traveler, or like a passer on, and reckon yourself as of the dead |
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. |
Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. |
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. |
Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them |
Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them |