Ed Foreman Quotes

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.

My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

As long as I'm reading, I'm at home.

Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.

I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.

Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

I do believe he’s the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he’s one of the greatest men I’ve ever met.

These guys from the nation's capital - now they do a lot of thinking. Referring to boxers from D.C., not politicians.

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.

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

If you can have a couple of tight friends that you can tell things to, that you can say, 'Hey, this is what I'm struggling with,' and then pray and talk about it, then that's an incredible thing.

The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

We were meant to live for so much more.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.

People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all.

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

I've experienced more sunrises with my bandmates and friends out on the road than with my wife, because we're always up at these strange times in the mornings trying to catch a plane.

I 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.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.