George Foreman Quotes

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

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.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

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

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

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

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.

Read the Bible; it is your roadmap through life.

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

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.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

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

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

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.

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

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.

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

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper!

As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

Choose wise and Godly people to advise you.

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.