Top 100 Foreman Quotes
#1. Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.
Joe Frazier
#2. 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
#3. When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.
Chael Sonnen
#4. The best thing that can ever happen to a human being is a job," he says. "You don't have a job, you're going to die!" Foreman was
Anonymous
#5. A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.
Stefan Heym
#6. I was the night foreman of a galvanizing factory, which is hot and smelly and dirty and miserable.
Ronald Perelman
#7. Most times, the foreman says, it ain't knowing what to say as much as it is just being there not knowing how to say it
Marc Bojanowski
#8. I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.
Muhammad Ali
#9. A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.
George Eliot
#10. I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
Hayao Miyazaki
#11. George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.
Larry Holmes
#12. The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.
Howard Cosell
#13. You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
Muhammad Ali
#14. The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.
Mary Parker Follett
#15. Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place.
Brian Tracy
#16. 'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His watercolours are so lovely you could almost eat them, just as members of the target audience have been trying to do for decades.
Tobias Hill
#17. 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
#18. I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.
Larry Holmes
#19. God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
Seamus Heaney
#20. George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.
Davis Miller
#21. We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
Gavin DeGraw
#22. heard a foreman berating a clerk for sending an order to Des Moines instead of Davenport before the clerk had gotten the shipping form from the front office.
Stephen King
#23. The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.
Mary Parker Follett
#24. With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.
Claude Bernard
#25. The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
Carl Sandburg
#26. It tried to fold everything," he said to Jackson, tasting bile in his throat. "But a person isn't a sheet, Mark. What I saw ... what was left of her ... " Like Stanner, the hapless foreman, he could not finish. "They took her out in a basket," he said softly.
Stephen King
#27. He loved the stuff. But unfortunately he couldn't say "Propamidine." In fact nobody on the entire establishment could say it except Charlie the farm foreman and he only thought he could say it. He called it "Propopamide" but his lordship had the utmost faith in him.
James Herriot
#28. Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
Joe Frazier
#29. Cafe Owners are more frustrated than the common laborer," Draeger writes. "The common laborer answers only to the foreman; the cafe owner answers to every patron who stops in
Ken Kesey
#30. I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
Muhammad Ali
#31. I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions.
Evander Holyfield
#32. The pride in strength and important mystery showed no less in the eyes of the sweepers than in those of the machinists and inspectors, and in those of the foreman, who alone was without a lunchbox. A
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#33. I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.
George Foreman
Davis Miller
#34. For a long time I wanted to do the kind of work my dad did. He was going to ask his foreman at the mill to put me on after I graduated. So I worked at the mill for about six months. But I hated the work and knew from the first day I didn't want to do that for the rest of my life.
Raymond Carver
#35. If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!
Muhammad Ali
#36. For me, I believe George Foreman was a bad example because when he became world heavyweight champion again at 42, that made a lot of fighters think they could also carry on.
Marvin Hagler
#37. In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it.
Wladimir Klitschko
#38. Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.
Jim Bailey
#39. phone network of the company, Foreman
Anonymous
#40. All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.
George Foreman
#41. George Foreman can knock down
an oak tree
... but oak trees don't move.
Angelo Dundee
#42. 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
#43. If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands.
Tommy Smith
#44. We're gonna do it like George Foreman. We're gonna name all of our kids Mariah no matter if they're boys or girls. Mariah No. 1, Boy Mariah, Man Mariah, Tall Mariah. It's gonna be a house full of people named Mariah.
Nick Cannon
#45. Can you zoom in?" The foreman rolled his eyes. "This here ain't CSI - it's Radio-fucking-Shack.
Guillermo Del Toro
#46. Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.
William Pepper
#47. When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
Mel Brooks
#48. When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that's when it's beautiful, and that's when we change.
Jon Foreman
#49. What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.
Jon Foreman
#50. There's nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
Jon Foreman
#51. Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.
Jon Foreman
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
George Foreman
#55. I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.
Michael Foreman
#56. I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.
George Foreman
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.
George Foreman
#60. If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.
Jon Foreman
#61. 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
#62. Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it. Neither, on the other hand, is there any special grace in ugliness. Art is only utterance. It must express something; and the vital question is, what does it express?
Lewis Foreman Day
#63. We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.
Ed Foreman
#64. If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.
Jon Foreman
#65. From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
Michael Foreman
#66. Like garden weeds, conflict always seems to find a way of sprouting up,
Richard Foreman
#67. The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.
Jon Foreman
#68. As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
George Foreman
#69. I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.
Jon Foreman
#70. There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.
George Foreman
#71. 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
#72. The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.
Jon Foreman
#73. Your faith is what you do daily, you can't separate your heart from your body and keep them both alive, they're almost the same thing.
Jon Foreman
#74. We were meant to live for so much more,
Jon Foreman
#75. All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language.
Richard Foreman
#76. 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
#77. Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.
Jon Foreman
#78. Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.
George Foreman
#79. The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.
Jon Foreman
#80. I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.
Jon Foreman
#81. 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
#82. If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.
Jon Foreman
#83. 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
#84. One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Richard Foreman
#86. Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.
Jon Foreman
#87. 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
#88. Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
Michael Foreman
#90. Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed
Jon Foreman
#91. Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.
Jon Foreman
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven't figured it out yet.
Jon Foreman
#95. I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.
Richard Foreman
#96. I think the most difficult things that we sacrifice are the things that we have to sacrifice daily.
Tim Foreman
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.
Jon Foreman
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