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Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring. George Foreman
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
The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income. 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
I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring. George Foreman
People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match. George Foreman
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them. George Foreman
I just don’t know how I was able to be a boxer in the first place without believing God. 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
Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I’m a happy camper. 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’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
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
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’m a winner each and every time I go into the ring. George Foreman
I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won. 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
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
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
I look at my children and one thing I’m most proud of, in my heart, are my children. 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
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
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
I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God. 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
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
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
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
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
Put your name on something, it better be the best… you only get one shot. 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
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
You don’t have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete. 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
The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters. 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
The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you’ve got. Don’t save anything. 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
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
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
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
Evil lurks where disappointment lodges. 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
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
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
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
I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way. George Foreman
They’ll take everything, even your tears. George Foreman
Generally when there’s a lot of smoke… there’s just a whole lot more smoke. 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
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
Preaching is the most original thing I’ve ever done. There’s nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave. 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
We’d always said boxers shouldn’t lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody’s gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights. George Foreman
My mother was watching on television and she doesn’t want me to hurt anyone. George Foreman
I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I’d try to show them they didn’t need anger. They didn’t need all that killing instinct they’d read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport. 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
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
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
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
My friends know that they’re my friends – even my enemies know that they’re my friends. 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with – that’s that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it. 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
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. 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
When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow. George Foreman
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone. 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
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
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
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
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
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion. 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
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
All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from. 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
A hero is someone right who doesn’t change. George Foreman
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. George Foreman
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches. 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
I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what. 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
Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand. George Foreman
You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children. 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
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. 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
We fought in 1974 – that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we loved each other. I am not closer to anyone else in this life than I am to Muhammad Ali. Why? We were forged by that first fight in Zaire, and our lives are indelibly linked by memories and photographs, as young men and old men. George Foreman
Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on. 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
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 can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong. That’s what I tell my kids, anyway. George Foreman