"I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see.""

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Source : "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

Joe Frazier

#Mom Quotes #Brother Quotes #Hands Quotes

“We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.”
“If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.”
“We are neither this way nor that; we are a body which is in the midst of change and evaporating. We are timeless, thousands of years old, and involved with processes which go beyond our present identity. This gives us an eternal feeling, but one which is realizable right here in the moment.”
“To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.”
“It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port”
“I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.”
“I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different people that I've met and worked with along the way from the Killers experience, within the band and without.”

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