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George Foreman Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

My friends know that they’re my friends – even my enemies know that they’re my friends.

– 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

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

– George Foreman

I look at my children and one thing I’m most proud of, in my heart, are my children.

– George Foreman

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

– 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

Generally when there’s a lot of smoke… there’s just a whole lot more smoke.

– 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 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’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

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

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

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

– George Foreman

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

– 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

A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.

– 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

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

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

– 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

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’m a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

– 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 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

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

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