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 FOREMANI 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.
More George Foreman Quotes
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Growing up poor, I didn’t even have a lunch to take to school.
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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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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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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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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.
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Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
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Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.
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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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I’m working for the Lord, and even though the Lord’s pay isn’t very high, his retirement program is.
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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 didn’t come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free.
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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.
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If you don’t dream, you might as well be dead.
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If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it.
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As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
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