I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

Joe Frazier's life didn't start with Ali. I was a Golden Gloves champ. Gold medal in Tokyo '64. Heavyweight champion of the world long before I fought Ali in the Garden.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.