George Foreman Quotes :
1. “When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.”
– George Foreman
2. “Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.”
– George Foreman
3. “Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.”
– George Foreman
4. “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.”
5. “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
6. “I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.”
– George Foreman
7. “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
8. “I’m a winner each and every time I go into the ring.”
– George Foreman
9. “Generally when there’s a lot of smoke there’s just a whole lot more smoke.”
– George Foreman
10. “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
11. “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
12. “They’ll take everything, even your tears.”
– George Foreman
13. “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
14. “Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”
– George Foreman
15. “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
16. “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
17. “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
18. “I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.”
– George Foreman
19. “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
20. “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
21. “It’s very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids… you’re not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.”
– George Foreman
22. “I look at my children and one thing I’m most proud of, in my heart, are my children.”
– George Foreman
23. “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
24. “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
25. “The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.”
– George Foreman
26. “I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.”
– George Foreman
27. “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
28. “If you don’t dream, you might as well be dead.”
– George Foreman
29. “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
30. “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
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