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It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training. -- George Foreman
My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown. -- George Foreman
Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since. -- George Foreman
There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It's more exciting than looking down a cliff. -- George Foreman
The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope. -- George Foreman
I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world. -- George Foreman
When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives. -- George Foreman
You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life. -- George Foreman
Put your name on something, it better be the best ... you only get one shot. -- George Foreman
Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway. -- George Foreman
I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive. -- George Foreman
There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer. -- George Foreman
These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians. -- George Foreman
As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If you don't have a good dog, it's going to be the most lonesome training camp you'll ever have. -- George Foreman
Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try. -- George Foreman
Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you. -- George Foreman
I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. So I'll say, 'Gimme five!' If a boy wants a handshake, I'll just give him a hug. -- George Foreman
Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation. -- George Foreman
My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone. -- George Foreman
I think that every boxer should understand he's on the pedestal for a short span. It's best that you use boxing and don't let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell yourself, and you'll never starve. -- George Foreman
They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator. -- George Foreman
I respect that you want to protect your niece. You know, I didn't want my daughter to become a boxer. Neither did Mohammad. But Joe Frazier, on the other hand, he had his baby girl boxing in the crib. -- George Foreman
All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things. -- George Foreman
A boxer never sees the big one that hits him. -- George Foreman
'Iron' Mike Tyson is the last boxer who was truly embraced by the media. They followed him around. You didn't know what he was going to do next: bite you, cut you, fight you. When you think about it, that defines him - it was an exciting adventure. -- George Foreman
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. -- George Foreman
Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy. -- George Foreman
I just don't know how I was able to be a boxer in the first place without believing God. -- George Foreman
The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers. -- George Foreman
You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn't mean anything. Leave something that we're all going to benefit from. I think that's what I'd like to do. -- George Foreman
As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that's the only one who would work out with me: my dogs. As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. -- George Foreman
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. -- George Foreman
I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs. -- George Foreman
I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change. -- George Foreman
Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile. -- George Foreman
If you don't dream, you might as well be dead. -- George Foreman
To succeed in business, you need somebody in your corner who cares enough to challenge you and is courageous enough to tell you the truth, especially when the pressure is on. -- George Foreman
You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete. -- George Foreman
You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children. -- George Foreman
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later. -- George Foreman
Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible. -- George Foreman
I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow me to have any more than that. But I have lots of dogs. I love the dogs. I breed them. I always have a puppy coming. And I show dogs. I show German shepherds. -- George Foreman
When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right. -- George Foreman
I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what. -- George Foreman
You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it. -- George Foreman
The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background. -- George Foreman
They'll take everything, even your tears. -- George Foreman
Plant a seed of greatness in your children. Speak a word of encourgement to someone who needs to hear it. Inspire someone to be a better person. One day you'll reap a harvest, and your world will become a better place to live. -- George Foreman
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. -- George Foreman
After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend. -- George Foreman
So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn't even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it. -- George Foreman
I get up in the morning looking for an adventure. -- George Foreman
Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match. -- George Foreman
When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own. -- George Foreman
Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire. -- George Foreman
If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway. -- George Foreman
There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset. -- George Foreman
In raising children, life brings forth those things where you do what you should never have done and what I taught you never to do. And when my kids have done those things, I just kind of look at them and say, 'Now you know life.' -- George Foreman
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?' -- George Foreman
Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper. -- George Foreman
I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches. -- George Foreman
Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions. -- George Foreman
I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard. -- George Foreman
But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families. -- George Foreman
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man. -- George Foreman
As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you. -- George Foreman
I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.' -- George Foreman
Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need. -- George Foreman
I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud. -- George Foreman
That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. -- George Foreman
When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow. -- George Foreman
I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day. -- George Foreman
My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends. -- George Foreman
They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with. -- George Foreman
Today the biggest decisions I make aren't related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, or Jack-in-the-Box. -- George Foreman
I'm a winner each and every time I go into the ring. -- George Foreman
I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them. -- George Foreman
If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it -- George Foreman
You've got to keep a dog with you at all times. A dog cannot roam. You've got to keep him in the house with you. You can't have a wild dog and expect days to go good. -- George Foreman
All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from. -- George Foreman
Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on. -- George Foreman
I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali. And it taught me one big lesson. That no matter how big and strong you are, you're going to have to use your mind. You must think things out. -- George Foreman
It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.' -- George Foreman
My favorite drink is water - the bland one: Evian. I stick with that. I celebrate in the evening sometimes with Perrier. That's why I love coming to California. They're always talking to you about bottled water. -- George Foreman
In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world. -- George Foreman
Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave. -- George Foreman
I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.' -- George Foreman
People trust me. I sell sincerity. -- George Foreman
Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage. -- George Foreman
I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world. -- George Foreman
Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream. -- George Foreman
Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head. -- George Foreman
When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read. -- George Foreman
In your business or in your close relationships, if you want people to perform Herculean feats on your behalf, they must know that you care about them. -- George Foreman
You wouldn't meet a Joe Frazier down today and then up tomorrow, said hello to big shots then ignore someone on the lower level; he was the most consistent human being. What you see is what you get. -- George Foreman
You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all. -- George Foreman
We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome. -- George Foreman
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river. -- George Foreman
I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons. -- George Foreman
The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything. -- George Foreman
I'm the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world. -- George Foreman
Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison. -- George Foreman
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing. -- George Foreman
Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is. -- George Foreman
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. -- George Foreman
In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost. -- George Foreman
I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha. -- George Foreman
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion. -- George Foreman
A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles. -- George Foreman
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. -- George Foreman
If you learn to sell, it's worth more than a degree. It's worth more than the heavyweight championship of the world. It's even more important than having a million dollars in the bank. Learn to sell, and you'll never starve. -- George Foreman
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. -- George Foreman
I love the UFC. I love it. If they had had that back when I was coming up, in 1966, it would have been my sport. Man, I love it. And you know what? Nobody would have pulled the rope-a-dope on me. -- George Foreman
I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is. -- George Foreman
Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. -- George Foreman
I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God. -- George Foreman
The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more
if only they were willing to take a few risks. -- George Foreman
The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters. -- George Foreman
I wanted to be champ of the world, but I kept hoping something would happen to Frazier. I didn't want to fight him. Nobody wanted to fight Joe Frazier. -- George Foreman
Generally when there's a lot of smoke ... there's just a whole lot more smoke. -- George Foreman
Choose wise and Godly people to advise you. -- George Foreman
I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way. -- George Foreman
If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down. -- George Foreman
Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that my not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them. -- George Foreman
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them. -- George Foreman
You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts. -- George Foreman
To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives. -- George Foreman
All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American. -- George Foreman
Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be. -- George Foreman
Getting up to Zaire - getting ready to fight Muhammad Ali - I thought this will be a matter of just a little exercise. I'll probably knock him out in three rounds. Two, three - maybe three and a half rounds. That was the most confidence I had in my whole life. -- George Foreman
No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn't see it until I saw it on film when I woke up! -- George Foreman
That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick. -- George Foreman
The sport needs a personality, not a fighter. We've got plenty of great fighters in the sport, but no personalities. No one is standing for anything. The last personality we had was Mike Tyson. He stood for something. It wasn't much, but he stood for something. -- George Foreman
I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America. -- George Foreman
The age of 40 is not a death sentence. -- George Foreman
Evil lurks where disappointment lodges. -- George Foreman
I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children. -- George Foreman
A hero is someone right who doesn't change. -- George Foreman
If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right. -- George Foreman
As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store. -- George Foreman
I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.' -- George Foreman
I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met. -- George Foreman
Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay. -- George Foreman
We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals. -- George Foreman
I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement. -- George Foreman
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches. -- George Foreman
Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand. -- George Foreman
You got to look nice. If you got 10 kids, they'll talk about you if you don't look nice. -- George Foreman
One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person. -- George Foreman
You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world. -- George Foreman
There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance. -- George Foreman
Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring. -- George Foreman
Frazier was not a big man at all. Frazier was about 5'9, but he would make anyone run. Put up your dukes and cover up because he's coming. He never backed up from anyone. -- George Foreman
Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both. -- George Foreman
Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back. -- George Foreman
If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons. -- George Foreman
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone. -- George Foreman
Don't be afraid to employ people who will force you out of your comfort zone. -- George Foreman
There shouldn't be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn't be any budget problems. -- George Foreman
If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion. -- George Foreman
When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ. -- George Foreman
Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life. -- George Foreman
I didn't come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free. -- George Foreman
As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you. -- George Foreman
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income. -- George Foreman
The best entrepreneurs have found a way to serve others and as a result discover their greatest fulfillment. -- George Foreman
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them. -- George Foreman
As long as I'm reading, I'm at home. -- George Foreman