A biography for George Foremanhasn’t been written yet.
“I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.”
“So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn't even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.”
“When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.”
“My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends.”
“You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.”
“The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.”
“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.”
“I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God.”
“My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.”
“I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.”
“Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.”
“I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. So I'll say, 'Gimme five!' If a boy wants a handshake, I'll just give him a hug.”
“When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read.”
“It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.”
“You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it.”
“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.”
“I think that every boxer should understand he's on the pedestal for a short span. It's best that you use boxing and don't let boxing use you. Use boxing to sell, because people are selling you through your boxing career, so you have to learn to sell yourself, and you'll never starve.”
“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.”
“Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.”
“There shouldn't be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn't be any budget problems.”