A hero is someone right who doesn't change. |
And then a friend convinced me, 'George, you are making all these companies wealthy, why don't you get your own product?' ... I said, 'OK, I'll do it.' |
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it. |
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. |
Generally when there's a lot of smoke. . . there's just a whole lot more smoke. |
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be.'' Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river. |
He lent a lot more (to the Houston sports scene) than you could imagine, ... because he was always so 'class' to all of us. Although he used to be with Muhammad Ali, the last fight I had in Japan, I took him along. So we got a chance to re-bond. |
health, fitness, quality, and of course, comfort. |
I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world. |
I have never been hit like that! It should have been illegal for someone to get in the ring and punch somebody like that. That should have been rated X. |
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. |
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. |
I'm a winner each and every time I go into the ring. |
I'm the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world. |
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won. |