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 FOREMANIn 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.
More George Foreman Quotes
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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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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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Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
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Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.
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Today the biggest decisions I make aren’t related to the heavyweight title. They are whether I visit McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, or Jack-in-the-Box.
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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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Excellence isn’t achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You’ve got to have both.
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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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Growing up poor, I didn’t even have a lunch to take to school.
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All I’ve ever tried to tell anyone is that I’m not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I’ve ever been was an American.
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One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.
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If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.
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A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.
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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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Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
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