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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.

George Foreman

I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Experience Give Up Yourself
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Goodness Herself Match Nervous
A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Big Boxing Himself
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Champion Defeat Internal Myself Revenue
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.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Country Greatness Himself People Prison Time
Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Impossible Leadership People Respect True
Learn to sell and you’ll never starve
GEORGE FOREMAN

Learning Sales Starve 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
As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Bad Situation Worst Yourself
The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Fight Important Person Referee
To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Habit Life Negative Positive Success
I didn’t come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Freedom Money Myself People Sick
You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Allow Best Effort Help Yourself
You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Death Forget Learning Live Yourself
If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Integrity Maintain Wrong Yourself
We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Goal Myself Patience Reach
One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Better Goal Inspirational Myself Person
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.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Children Confidence Dreams Yourself
There’s more to boxing than hitting. There’s not getting hit, for instance.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Boxing Fight Hit Sports
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
Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Aspiration Boxing Sports
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
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
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
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.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Easy Fear Goodness Lost Myself Nervous Time
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
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.
GEORGE FOREMAN

Black Man Myself Try

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