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Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

George Foreman

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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Existing Hope Life Match Passion Statement 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.
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Big Decision Myself Relate
Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I’m a happy camper!
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Camp Happiness Horse Moments Myself Ride Time
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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Easy Fear Goodness Lost Myself Nervous Time
Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
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Boxing Brain Damage Fight Match
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
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Children Hard Home Life Oneself Phone
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
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Appreciation Bad People Situation
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
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Dog Germany Myself
Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.
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Effort Failure Fear Mistake People Try
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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Best Negative Obsession Ride Weigh Yourself
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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Children Forgiveness Friendship Love Oneself
If you don’t dream, you might as well be dead.
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Death Dreams Yourself
The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.
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Fight Important Person Referee
Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile.
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Heroes Stand Talk Time
Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.
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Impossible Leadership People Respect True
Growing up poor, I didn’t even have a lunch to take to school.
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Education Growth Myself School
The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.
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Age Income Myself Question Retirement
We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.
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Goal Myself Patience Reach
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!
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Career Hard Movie Myself Wake Up
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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Attitude Basic Business Goodness Need Yourself
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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Children Confidence Dreams Yourself
One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.
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Better Goal Inspirational Myself Person
As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
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Bad Situation Worst Yourself
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn’t afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po’.
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Afford Funny Ourselves Poor Poverty
If you want it, leave your excuses behind and come and get it.
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Excuse Leaving Yourself
Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.
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Angry Freedom Head Live Yourself
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.
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Correct Fight Myself Respiration

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