I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.
GEORGE FOREMANI want to keep fighting because it’s the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don’t fight, I’ll eat this planet.
More George Foreman Quotes
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I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
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I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.
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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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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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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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Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.
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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’.
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Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.
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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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A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He’ll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.
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As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.
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Learn to sell and you’ll never starve
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Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.
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You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.
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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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