No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn’t see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!
GEORGE FOREMANBoxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
More George Foreman Quotes
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I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
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Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
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A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.
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Don’t let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That’s a price that’s too high to pay.
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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.
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I want to keep fighting because it’s the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don’t fight, I’ll eat this planet.
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Growing up poor, I didn’t even have a lunch to take to school.
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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.
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I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
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Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.
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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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If you don’t dream, you might as well be dead.
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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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There’s more to boxing than hitting. There’s not getting hit, for instance.
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I look at my children and one thing I’m most proud of, in my heart, are my children.
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Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
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If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.
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When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
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Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
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If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.
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You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.
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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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Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.
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A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.
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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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As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
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