Joe Frazier Quotes

We do not kick a man in the stomach after we’ve licked him.

Do not completely defeat your opponents. Leave your opponents some dignity with which to walk off the field. They have been elected by some people and you have no right to dismember them… When you do that, you lose all semblance of leadership.

I like fighting clean. I've always fought clean, and I want to fight clean people. I want to fight fair.

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Some defeats are better than victories. A defeat endured as the result of contest conducted in a fair and honorable manner is a thousand times more creditable to the defeated party than a victory gained by all the mean and unscrupulous arts of the wire pullers.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty; Mercy; Hope.

We have to respect the opponents.

When I fight someone who's not a good person, I want to beat him.

I'm not the type of dude who kicks somebody when they're down.

It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.

I show up to win. I don't show up to hurt a guy. I don't show up with emotion.

We respect all our opponents.

I fight fairly, and in good faith.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.