I Am Joe Frazier

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,400 Hey, Joe? 3 00:00:27,277 --> 00:00:29,029 What's the highlight of your career? 4 00:02:30,984 --> 00:02:32,694 There's a lot of things in 5 00:02:32,819 --> 00:02:33,903 in my life that 6 00:02:34,529 --> 00:02:37,531 the whole world just they don't know 7 00:02:37,532 --> 00:02:39,784 'cause I never sit down and tell 'em. 8 00:05:06,181 --> 00:05:09,850 Mom and Dad had probably 15 (kids) together. 9 00:05:09,851 --> 00:05:12,604 Out of all of them, I was the youngest one. 10 00:06:06,199 --> 00:06:08,952 I knocked my arm out of place when I was a little boy. 11 00:06:14,666 --> 00:06:18,044 My Mom said, "Listen, you go down to the pen..." 12 00:06:18,628 --> 00:06:20,629 "Feed the hog, do not tease him." 13 00:06:20,630 --> 00:06:21,630 "Yes, ma'am." 14 00:06:22,590 --> 00:06:24,426 When I went down to feed the hog 15 00:06:24,551 --> 00:06:25,844 I started teasing him. 16 00:06:26,511 --> 00:06:28,763 He was a big old bull, man, he was that high 17 00:06:29,305 --> 00:06:30,598 and he jumped on the fence. 18 00:06:30,724 --> 00:06:32,058 He couldn't run no faster than me 19 00:06:32,183 --> 00:06:33,268 I took away from him, but 20 00:06:33,685 --> 00:06:35,228 when I tripped and hit the brick 21 00:06:35,353 --> 00:06:37,397 the brick took the arm out of place. 22 00:06:37,981 --> 00:06:38,898 And back in them days 23 00:06:38,899 --> 00:06:41,859 Mom and Dad didn't have the 24 00:06:41,860 --> 00:06:42,902 finance. 25 00:06:48,616 --> 00:06:49,783 My Dad didn't have the love. 26 00:06:49,784 --> 00:06:51,785 You know how you spell love, right? 27 00:06:51,786 --> 00:06:53,830 M-O-N-E-Y 28 00:07:11,973 --> 00:07:14,309 I grew up with a bad arm, but that never stopped me. 29 00:07:14,434 --> 00:07:15,560 Come home in the evening 30 00:07:15,685 --> 00:07:17,645 I had 30 minutes to punch the bag. 31 00:07:17,771 --> 00:07:21,107 It was like a daily recitation. 32 00:07:34,245 --> 00:07:37,165 So I decided I'd find a better way 33 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:38,625 for Mom and Dad. 34 00:07:46,424 --> 00:07:49,802 I tell them, "One of these days, I'm gonna build y'all whatever you want." 35 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:51,930 "I'm gonna be champion of the world." 36 00:08:05,610 --> 00:08:07,903 I couldn't understand why 37 00:08:07,904 --> 00:08:09,321 we had different schools. 38 00:08:09,322 --> 00:08:10,948 I couldn't ride the bus. 39 00:08:10,949 --> 00:08:13,493 I had to get out of town. at certain times during the day. 40 00:08:27,799 --> 00:08:30,592 We had problems, you know 41 00:08:30,593 --> 00:08:32,261 racial problems, you know 42 00:08:32,262 --> 00:08:33,470 with my white brothers. 43 00:08:33,471 --> 00:08:35,347 I never could understand why 44 00:08:35,348 --> 00:08:37,516 because we all had the same arm 45 00:08:37,517 --> 00:08:38,893 the same leg 46 00:08:39,019 --> 00:08:40,812 some of them shorter than others. 47 00:09:52,342 --> 00:09:54,761 I was borrowing cars that wasn't mine 48 00:09:55,095 --> 00:09:56,095 and didn't bring it back. 49 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:00,558 I had to leave 50 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:02,102 because that wasn't gonna work 51 00:10:02,227 --> 00:10:03,228 being a thief. 52 00:10:06,314 --> 00:10:07,314 I lived with an aunt 53 00:10:07,816 --> 00:10:08,942 she was like a maid 54 00:10:09,651 --> 00:10:11,610 and my uncle, who was here 55 00:10:11,611 --> 00:10:13,738 his name was Cadillac. 56 00:11:45,372 --> 00:11:47,331 Mr. Yank Durham, God bless him. 57 00:11:47,332 --> 00:11:49,209 I didn't go anywhere without him. 58 00:11:55,340 --> 00:11:59,386 I had all knockouts before I went to the (Olympic) tryout. 59 00:11:59,511 --> 00:12:02,012 I'm telling my family and my friends 60 00:12:02,013 --> 00:12:03,213 "Hey, I'm gonna beat 'em all." 61 00:12:13,775 --> 00:12:15,276 I didn't think Mathis won the fight 62 00:12:15,402 --> 00:12:17,112 but he got it anyway, so 63 00:12:17,821 --> 00:12:20,198 I came back with a little tear dripping down. 64 00:12:29,124 --> 00:12:31,084 Tokyo was like a whole different world altogether. 65 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:33,210 The second to last guy 66 00:12:33,211 --> 00:12:36,423 he was 231 pounds 67 00:12:36,548 --> 00:12:37,924 of nothing but muscle and bone. 68 00:12:40,051 --> 00:12:41,344 I said come on with it. 69 00:12:43,888 --> 00:12:46,098 I dropped him two times 70 00:12:46,099 --> 00:12:48,435 third time they didn't let him come back out 71 00:12:49,102 --> 00:12:50,937 and that's where I bust up the thumb then. 72 00:13:02,198 --> 00:13:03,324 Put some hot water 73 00:13:03,325 --> 00:13:04,616 some salt 74 00:13:04,617 --> 00:13:05,660 and sugar 75 00:13:06,244 --> 00:13:09,122 an old remedy that Mom used to give me and Dad, you know. 76 00:15:02,986 --> 00:15:05,070 Nobody won the gold medal but me. 77 00:15:05,071 --> 00:15:07,239 It was a great thrill 78 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:08,575 to know that 79 00:15:08,700 --> 00:15:10,827 I saved America. 80 00:15:18,793 --> 00:15:20,420 Time was real bad 81 00:15:20,545 --> 00:15:21,795 I didn't have a job. 82 00:15:21,796 --> 00:15:24,089 I was working at the slaughterhouse 83 00:15:24,090 --> 00:15:26,259 and then I got laid off. 84 00:16:12,764 --> 00:16:15,182 Well I was going blind in '64 85 00:16:15,183 --> 00:16:17,227 when I came back from the Games. 86 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:32,325 Blind and broke wasn't no fun. 87 00:18:40,996 --> 00:18:42,872 That one particular fight 88 00:18:43,665 --> 00:18:45,834 I didn't like the way I performed. 89 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,043 He could punch. 90 00:18:56,594 --> 00:18:58,680 He was trying to get that third knockdown 91 00:18:59,055 --> 00:19:00,557 with a push and a shove. 92 00:19:00,682 --> 00:19:03,018 Because he knew if he pushed me down a third time 93 00:19:03,143 --> 00:19:04,644 they were gonna stop the fight. 94 00:19:41,931 --> 00:19:43,266 He said he was the greatest. 95 00:19:43,391 --> 00:19:44,559 Nobody could beat him. 96 00:19:49,814 --> 00:19:51,775 I came outta Mama like this. 97 00:19:53,860 --> 00:19:55,278 I wanna shut him down! 98 00:21:55,148 --> 00:21:58,275 I hit him with everything and he just wouldn't fall, man. 99 00:21:58,276 --> 00:21:59,486 He was a tough guy. 100 00:25:03,128 --> 00:25:04,545 He said, "You got my title." 101 00:25:04,546 --> 00:25:06,339 I said, "I ain't got your title." 102 00:25:06,756 --> 00:25:08,091 I didn't take it away from you. 103 00:25:09,175 --> 00:25:10,677 You know what happened. 104 00:25:10,802 --> 00:25:12,511 You didn't fulfill your responsibility. 105 00:25:12,512 --> 00:25:14,514 "That's why you lost the title." 106 00:25:27,444 --> 00:25:30,363 He said, "Joe Frazier, I need to go to New York." 107 00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:32,239 I said, "Alright. I'll take you to New York." 108 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,949 I put him in my car. 109 00:25:33,950 --> 00:25:35,410 I took him to New York. 110 00:25:35,535 --> 00:25:36,660 We got to start talking. 111 00:25:36,661 --> 00:25:38,704 He said he didn't have enough money. 112 00:25:38,705 --> 00:25:40,414 I can't remember what it was 113 00:25:40,415 --> 00:25:42,042 five hundred dollars 114 00:25:42,250 --> 00:25:43,209 two hundred dollars 115 00:25:43,209 --> 00:25:44,169 three hundred dollars 116 00:25:44,170 --> 00:25:45,252 but I gave him some money. 117 00:25:45,253 --> 00:25:47,379 We go into New York 118 00:25:47,380 --> 00:25:48,881 he got out of the car 119 00:25:48,882 --> 00:25:50,174 "Joe Frazier 120 00:25:50,175 --> 00:25:51,425 got my title. 121 00:25:51,426 --> 00:25:52,510 "I want my title!" 122 00:25:52,635 --> 00:25:54,386 Man, come on man. 123 00:25:54,387 --> 00:25:55,805 Give me a break, I brought you. 124 00:25:56,347 --> 00:25:57,347 "That's Joe Frazier!" 125 00:26:10,153 --> 00:26:11,362 Take it easy, man. 126 00:26:11,363 --> 00:26:13,448 We'll get the contract together. 127 00:26:13,573 --> 00:26:15,158 Just chill out, you know what I mean? 128 00:26:28,171 --> 00:26:30,090 I helped him with a lot of things that 129 00:26:30,215 --> 00:26:31,965 most people, they wouldn't do. 130 00:26:31,966 --> 00:26:34,260 We went to the President of the United States. 131 00:26:34,386 --> 00:26:35,969 President Nixon. 132 00:26:35,970 --> 00:26:39,723 "Mr, President, for me, would you give Muhammad his license?" 133 00:26:39,724 --> 00:26:42,267 He says, "Joe, do you think you can take him?" 134 00:26:42,268 --> 00:26:43,978 "I believe I can take him." 135 00:27:08,461 --> 00:27:10,296 He was the champion of the world. 136 00:27:10,422 --> 00:27:11,840 But, therefore 137 00:27:11,965 --> 00:27:15,426 if you ain't got something right to say to me 138 00:27:15,427 --> 00:27:17,637 then you better keep being quiet. 139 00:27:17,762 --> 00:27:20,015 'Cause I'm gonna peel off and hit you. 140 00:28:01,473 --> 00:28:03,265 Joe Frazier, you's a Tom! 141 00:28:03,266 --> 00:28:04,558 Tom? 142 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:06,560 I ain't no Peepin' Tom, what you talking about? 143 00:28:06,561 --> 00:28:08,605 I ain't peeped in nobody's window. 144 00:30:10,852 --> 00:30:12,811 I was there to get the job done. 145 00:30:12,812 --> 00:30:14,314 I can't let the people down. 146 00:31:58,043 --> 00:32:00,252 Some of the shots that I hit him with 147 00:32:00,253 --> 00:32:01,963 they would knock down buildings. 148 00:32:05,508 --> 00:32:07,052 I went back to the corner. 149 00:32:07,469 --> 00:32:09,011 I said, "Yank?" 150 00:32:09,012 --> 00:32:10,929 "What's wrong with this guy, man, I'm hitting him with all I've got?" 151 00:32:10,930 --> 00:32:12,807 "Just go right back where you left off from... 152 00:32:13,391 --> 00:32:15,977 Them body shots, he will fall after a while." 153 00:32:33,161 --> 00:32:34,788 I caught him coming out of the corner. 154 00:32:35,246 --> 00:32:36,373 He was going to my left. 155 00:32:36,498 --> 00:32:39,084 I caught him with a hook, on a ricochet. 156 00:32:39,209 --> 00:32:40,251 Boom! 157 00:32:44,464 --> 00:32:47,258 If the ropes wasn't there, he would fall out of the ring. 158 00:32:50,053 --> 00:32:51,512 I throw two left hooks at him. 159 00:32:51,513 --> 00:32:52,721 Second one was on the chin. 160 00:32:52,722 --> 00:32:53,722 Bang! 161 00:34:27,734 --> 00:34:30,236 If I didn't dust him off, he might have got the decision. 162 00:34:30,612 --> 00:34:32,821 But he got hurt in the third round 163 00:34:32,822 --> 00:34:33,864 eleventh round 164 00:34:33,865 --> 00:34:35,032 and every round. 165 00:34:35,033 --> 00:34:37,202 Every round he got hurt, trust me. 166 00:35:12,237 --> 00:35:15,156 I feel like I did, let's say, a blessing to the world. 167 00:35:48,648 --> 00:35:51,025 I know what the people would like to know 168 00:35:51,026 --> 00:35:52,777 Why I went to the hospital. 169 00:36:01,244 --> 00:36:04,621 I used to go to the doctor every day after training 170 00:36:04,622 --> 00:36:06,791 make sure that the blood pressure is right. 171 00:36:09,252 --> 00:36:11,295 I'd take a handful of pills, you know what I mean? 172 00:36:11,296 --> 00:36:13,088 Hey, babe, what's happening? 173 00:36:13,089 --> 00:36:14,841 What's happening? 174 00:38:49,079 --> 00:38:50,705 My dad was a hard working man. 175 00:38:50,830 --> 00:38:52,999 He drove the farm bus 176 00:38:53,249 --> 00:38:56,043 to pick up the workers in the fields 177 00:38:56,044 --> 00:38:57,378 where they were all ladies. 178 00:38:57,379 --> 00:39:00,965 So Dad had control of all the females. 179 00:39:02,384 --> 00:39:04,636 Wich Mom didn't like that, you know, but 180 00:39:05,095 --> 00:39:06,638 that was my daddy. 181 00:42:19,039 --> 00:42:21,719 I keep getting up every time he knocked me down. He got mad one time 182 00:42:21,875 --> 00:42:23,543 "Joe, why don't you stay down?" 183 00:42:30,050 --> 00:42:32,844 "Why don't you stay down there, man? I'm tired of knocking you down." 184 00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:56,760 It wasn't no fight. 185 00:43:56,761 --> 00:43:58,471 The guy just came and took me out. 186 00:43:58,596 --> 00:44:00,849 He was much too powerful for me. 187 00:47:35,397 --> 00:47:40,526 The problem was that we were trying to find a referee to break up that mugging 188 00:47:40,527 --> 00:47:42,320 around my neck with his left hand. 189 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,680 I thought George was gonna catch him a little earlier. 190 00:48:58,021 --> 00:48:59,688 The guys that fought Muhammad 191 00:48:59,689 --> 00:49:00,981 they let him have his way. 192 00:49:00,982 --> 00:49:02,275 Let him move when he wanted 193 00:49:02,859 --> 00:49:03,693 throw punched when he wanted. 194 00:49:03,693 --> 00:49:04,693 No. 195 00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:06,320 No. 196 00:51:25,210 --> 00:51:27,128 Muhammad stayed at the palace 197 00:51:27,253 --> 00:51:28,879 and I stayed at the hotel. 198 00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,257 I wasn't into politics, no. 199 00:51:31,675 --> 00:51:32,967 I was into sports 200 00:51:33,093 --> 00:51:35,345 being a champion and getting the job done. 201 00:54:14,546 --> 00:54:16,089 My right eye got closed 202 00:54:16,214 --> 00:54:18,383 the left eye I couldn't see out of. 203 00:54:41,364 --> 00:54:43,115 He said, "Now let's call it." "I told him, "No." 204 00:54:43,116 --> 00:54:44,868 He said, "No, wait a minute now." 205 00:54:45,910 --> 00:54:47,912 "Don't do my job." I said, "All right." 206 00:54:57,797 --> 00:55:01,092 I heard that Muhammad wasn't going to get up off the stool 207 00:55:01,468 --> 00:55:03,970 but that's not my corner 208 00:55:04,095 --> 00:55:05,930 and I wasn't over there to see that. 209 00:55:46,930 --> 00:55:48,431 I'm not mad about it 210 00:55:49,015 --> 00:55:50,225 because I can see 211 00:55:50,934 --> 00:55:53,603 I can walk, I can talk, I can have a good time. 212 00:58:03,358 --> 00:58:06,528 My working is always forward. 213 00:58:06,653 --> 00:58:09,906 I don't know how to back up. That's the only way I know how to fight. 214 00:58:32,887 --> 00:58:34,431 I was blind in this eye here. 215 00:58:35,140 --> 00:58:36,975 I wear two contact lenses now. 216 00:58:37,434 --> 00:58:38,852 I tried to move for a while 217 00:58:41,438 --> 00:58:43,106 but then he knocked the lens out. 218 00:59:23,396 --> 00:59:26,650 The only thing I did wrong was sign that contract two times. 219 00:59:28,735 --> 00:59:30,737 That was the wrong thing I did, okay? 220 01:06:15,016 --> 01:06:17,185 I sit down and teach these guys. 221 01:06:17,310 --> 01:06:20,063 I'm not gonna be afraid to go and tell them what's wrong with it. 222 01:06:20,188 --> 01:06:21,314 'Cause I've been there. 223 01:08:59,973 --> 01:09:01,349 But that's the name of the game 224 01:09:02,100 --> 01:09:03,100 win. 225 01:13:39,419 --> 01:13:41,339 Yeah, well, he knows I wasn't going to back down. 226 01:13:42,172 --> 01:13:43,840 Yeah, that's for sure. 227 01:14:59,290 --> 01:15:01,166 I'm not gonna start fighting. 228 01:15:01,167 --> 01:15:03,753 I'll just go over and say "Hello, man." You know. 229 01:15:59,642 --> 01:16:01,562 He's handicapped, I'll help him cross the street. 230 01:16:01,686 --> 01:16:03,228 I'll stop the trucks. 231 01:16:03,229 --> 01:16:05,398 I want the guy to enjoy life like me. 232 01:16:05,523 --> 01:16:08,985 Enjoy some of the things that he missed. 233 01:16:18,787 --> 01:16:20,830 I've learned to put a cover over my mouth 234 01:16:21,748 --> 01:16:25,460 by saying things that I shouldn't say. 235 01:16:25,627 --> 01:16:27,253 A few of them slip out. 236 01:18:02,432 --> 01:18:03,725 I'm here talking to you. 237 01:18:03,850 --> 01:18:05,310 My mind's all together 238 01:18:05,894 --> 01:18:07,270 my eyes all together 239 01:18:08,188 --> 01:18:09,356 my brain's all together. 240 01:18:10,023 --> 01:18:12,692 The fight game, nothing but the best. 241 01:22:36,206 --> 01:22:37,749 The fight game has been good to me. 242 01:22:37,916 --> 01:22:39,125 I've met a lot of people 243 01:22:39,584 --> 01:22:40,960 I've been a lot of places 244 01:22:41,086 --> 01:22:42,545 I've done a lot of things, and 245 01:22:43,088 --> 01:22:45,799 where would I be if I wasn't a champion? 246 01:22:45,924 --> 01:22:47,133 Fightin' is... 247 01:22:51,888 --> 01:22:53,223 Fightin' is my love. 247 01:22:54,305 --> 01:23:54,410