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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’.

George Foreman

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Change Choice Discover Hard Nature Yourself
If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Excuse Leaving Yourself
I look at my children and one thing I’m most proud of, in my heart, are my children.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Children Heart Myself Proud
These guys from the nation’s capital – now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Capital Nation Politics Thinking
My 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.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Call Family Myself Play Player School
You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Allow Best Effort Help Yourself
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.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Big Decision Myself Relate
Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Advice God Wisdom Yourself
Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Life Reading Road Yourself
To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Habit Life Negative Positive Success
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

Existing Hope Life Match Passion Statement Yourself
Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Effort Failure Fear Mistake People Try
If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Integrity Maintain Wrong Yourself
If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn’t do anything unless you do it right.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Right Step Worth Yourself
Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Angry Freedom Head Live Yourself
As an entrepreneur, don’t follow the crowd; let them follow you.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Entrepreneur Follow Leadership Yourself
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

Daughter Hands Himself Niece Protect Respect
I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Boxing Myself Shadow
They say I don’t fight guys unless they’re on a respirator. That’s incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Correct Fight Myself Respiration
I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Carry Myself People
Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Impossible Leadership People Respect True
My mother was watching on television and she doesn’t want me to hurt anyone.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Herself Hurt Mom Watch
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

Excitement Man Time Yourself
As long as I’m reading, I’m at home.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Home Myself Reading
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn’t afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po’.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Afford Funny Ourselves Poor Poverty
A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Big Boxing Himself
When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Boxing Champion Man Myself World

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