Top 100 Quotes About George Foreman
#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. I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.
Muhammad Ali
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
Muhammad Ali
#7. 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
#8. I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.
Larry Holmes
#9. George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.
Davis Miller
#10. We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
Gavin DeGraw
#11. Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.
Joe Frazier
#12. I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
Muhammad Ali
#13. 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
#14. I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.
George Foreman
Davis Miller
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.
George Foreman
#18. George Foreman can knock down
an oak tree
... but oak trees don't move.
Angelo Dundee
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
George Foreman
#24. I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.
George Foreman
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.
George Foreman
#28. 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
#29. As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
George Foreman
#30. There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.
George Foreman
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.
George Foreman
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.
George Foreman
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. '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
#51. Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.
George Foreman
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
George Foreman
#63. 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
#64. Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
George Foreman
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.
George Foreman
#69. Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
George Foreman
#70. 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
#71. Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
George Foreman
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
George Foreman
#75. 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
#76. If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it
George Foreman
#77. I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
George Foreman
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.
George Foreman
#81. Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
George Foreman
#83. My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends.
George Foreman
#84. Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.
George Foreman
#85. Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.
George Foreman
#86. When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.
George Foreman
#87. 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
#88. Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
George Foreman
#89. I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.
George Foreman
#90. One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.
George Foreman
#91. You got to look nice. If you got 10 kids, they'll talk about you if you don't look nice.
George Foreman
#92. We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.
George Foreman
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.
George Foreman
#97. Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.
George Foreman
#98. 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
#99. I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.
George Foreman
#100. You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.
George Foreman
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