Excellence isn’t achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You’ve got to have both.
GEORGE FOREMANMy whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we’re going to have a team and call it Georgetown.
More George Foreman Quotes
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I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.
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As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I’d get locked in a grocery store.
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Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.
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To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.
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The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
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These guys from the nation’s capital – now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.
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I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
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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.
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You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
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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.
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When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn’t afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po’.
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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.
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All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
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