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Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.
- George Foreman
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#Better
#Name
#Shot
#Something
I'm never without my dog. They would be in every corner of the house, and my wife will not allow me to have any more than that. But I have lots of dogs. I love the dogs. I breed them. I always have a puppy coming. And I show dogs. I show German shepherds.
- George Foreman
#Dog
#Love
#Me
#Wife
#Will
We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights.
- George Foreman
#Always
#Champion
#Lift
#Room
#Week
Generally when there's a lot of smoke... there's just a whole lot more smoke.
- George Foreman
#Just
#Lot
#More
#Smoke
#Whole
The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.
- George Foreman
#Important Person
#Important
#Person
If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.
- George Foreman
#Go
#Integrity
#Tell
#Whatever
#Wrong
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.
- George Foreman
#Confidence
#Dream
#Everybody
#Somebody
Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it.
- George Foreman
#Good
#Love
#Mirror
#Money
#Morning
I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard.
- George Foreman
#Fitness
#Go
#Important
#Life
#Time
I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.
- George Foreman
#Anger
#Human
#Try
#World
#Youth
The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.
- George Foreman
#Amazing
#Boy
#Gold
#Moment
#True
I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.
- George Foreman
#Experience
#Never Give Up
#Up
#Yourself
'Iron' Mike Tyson is the last boxer who was truly embraced by the media. They followed him around. You didn't know what he was going to do next: bite you, cut you, fight you. When you think about it, that defines him - it was an exciting adventure.
- George Foreman
#Adventure
#Fight
#Iron
#Know
#Media
Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.
- George Foreman
#About
#Always
#Later
#Scars
#See
It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'
- George Foreman
#Day
#Hope
#Life
#Look
#Mistakes
The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'
- George Foreman
#Business
#Country
#Integrity
#Oil
#Trust
Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
- George Foreman
#Choose
#Hardest
#Nature
#Who
#Your
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.
- George Foreman
#Age
#Boxing
#Hope
#Life
#More
When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.
- George Foreman
#Foundation
#Good
#Home
#Time
#Try
I am so happy to be alive. That's the one thing I'd like for people to know. Sometimes people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive.
- George Foreman
#Alive
#I Am
#Me
#Smile
#Walk
I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons.
- George Foreman
#Always
#Back
#Free
#Freedom
#Go
#Love
Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.
- George Foreman
#Disappointment
#Evil
#Lurks
#Where
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.
- George Foreman
#High
#Lord
#Pay
#Retirement
#World
Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
- George Foreman
#Fight
#Hand
#Right Hand
#Right
#Sure
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
- George Foreman
#Boxing
#George
#Seen
#Shadow
#Won
They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.
- George Foreman
#Dope
#Fighter
#Rope
#Smart
#Tired
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
- George Foreman
#Afford
#Houston
#Last
#Letters
#Poor
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.
- George Foreman
#Great Man
#Great
#Hero
#Man
#True
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.
- George Foreman
#Extra Mile
#Speak
#Stand Up
#Stand
#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.
- George Foreman
#Fear
#Good
#Lost
#Time
#Waiting
My favorite drink is water - the bland one: Evian. I stick with that. I celebrate in the evening sometimes with Perrier. That's why I love coming to California. They're always talking to you about bottled water.
- George Foreman
#Celebrate
#Evening
#Love
#Water
#Why
Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.
- George Foreman
#Before
#Done
#Ground
#Me
#Up
It's very important that people know that I really enjoy everything that has happened to me. And I tell my kids... you're not going to be the tallest, fastest, prettiest, the best track runner, but you can be the nicest human being that someone has ever met in their life. And I just want to leave that legacy that being nice is a true treasure.
- George Foreman
#Best
#Legacy
#Life
#Me
#Nice
I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.
- George Foreman
#Best
#Fight
#Fighter
#Home
#Me
#Street
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
- George Foreman
#Day
#Forgiveness
#Friendship
#Love
#May
A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
- George Foreman
#Change
#Hero
#Right
#Someone
#Who
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
- George Foreman
#Age
#Income
#Question
#Retire
#Want
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
- George Foreman
#Better
#Boxing
#Jazz
#Like
#People
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
- George Foreman
#Good
#Great
#Happiness
#Learning
#Today
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
- George Foreman
#Hard
#House
#Life
#Live
#Phone
#Teen
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.
- George Foreman
#Gift
#Me
#Negativity
#Positive
#Water
I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.
- George Foreman
#Adventure
#Get
#Looking
#Morning
#Up
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