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“Joe, you can’t beat me! Don’t you know I’m God?”
“Lord, you in the wrong place tonight.”
Also, I met Frazier last year in Philadelphia and he was incredibly kind, generous and humble. He signed, in good humor, a picture I now have framed above my desk of him looking stoically past an Ali trying to get a rise out of him.
A great man. RIP.
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Mike L. Leen | 11.8.11 @ 9:40AM
Joe, you were never counted out and to me, you're still not. Joe I know you're still bobbin', still smokin', still left-hookin', still battling away. Joe, I am still yelling for you til my lungs cause me to double over. God bless you and the Frazier Family.
vtwin | 11.8.11 @ 1:38PM
A hell of a fighter. I never could suffer Cassius Clay ( uttering his raghead alias almost makes me puke) because of his dumb attitude unbecoming of a real boxer. Joe led a lonely, humble life, helping city kids straighten up. Was he an inspiration for Morgan Freeman's role in "Million Dollar Baby"?
God bless you, Joe.
AVCurmudgeon| 11.9.11 @ 2:46PM
Joe Frazier was an incredibly gallant warrior as he showed in the three fights with Ali. He faced a bigger, stronger more agile man and came within a whisker of destroying him. And indeed, those fights may have done as much as anything to contribute to Ali's later mental decline.
But to have an idea of Frazier's equanimity, remember the scene in "Rocky" when Apollo Creed brings him to the ring and then teases him Ali-like. Frazier was content to submit himself to that, as though it were real.
A great athlete, tenacious warrior and genuinely humble and human person. He was the role model young people should be looking to.