A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
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.
I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
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 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.
Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he's gonna be disappointed anyway.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.
Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
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.
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
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.
They'll take everything, even your tears.
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
Foreman once played himself on an episode of Home Improvement.
Foreman's daughter, Freeda, had a brief career as a female professional boxer.
Foreman once appeared as himself in an episode of Sanford and Son entitled The Director.
Muhammad Ali called Foreman by far the strongest foe he ever faced in the ring.
Foreman was called an Uncle Tom by many Afro-Americans when he held an American flag in his hand as he stood on the victor's stand at the 1968 Olympics.
Parents' names were J. B. and Nancy Foreman.
In 1993, Foreman starred in a short-lived sitcom on ABC called George.
In 1994, Foreman won the IBF and WBA heavyweight titles when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round.
In 1977, after losing a 12 round decision to Jimmy Young, Foreman retired from boxing for the first time.
George Foreman's 1973 fight with Joe Frazier was the first of many boxing contests to be televised by HBO.
In Foreman's first professional fight he knocked out Donald Waltheim in the third round.
Foreman started boxing during his teens when he joined the Job Corps.
He was elected to the International Boxing Hall Of Fame in January 2003.
George was raised in Houston, Texas after his parents moved there from Marshall, Texas when he was very young.
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