Top 90 George Foreman Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.”

— George Foreman

52. “No doubt about it, in my career Ron Lyle hit me the hardest. One time he hit me so hard I didn’t see it until I saw it on film when I woke up!”

— George Foreman

53. “As an entrepreneur, don’t follow the crowd; let them follow you.”

— George Foreman

54. “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

55. “Let the other guy have whatever he wants before the fight. Once the bell rings he’s gonna be disappointed anyway.”

— George Foreman

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

— George Foreman

57. “Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

— George Foreman

58. “In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didnt have any fear. I thought, This is easy. This is what Ive been waiting for. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.”

— George Foreman

59. “That gal’s all skull and no brains. She’s like Joe Frazier with lipstick.”

— George Foreman

60. “I respect that you want to protect your niece. You know, I didn’t want my daughter to become a boxer. Neither did Mohammad. But Joe Frazier, on the other hand, he had his baby girl boxing in the crib.”

— George Foreman

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

— George Foreman

62. “There ain’t nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five seconds to go, the boom! The bell. It’s more exciting than looking down a cliff.”

— George Foreman

63. “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.”

— George Foreman

64. “My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we’re going to have a team and call it Georgetown.”

— George Foreman

65. “I’ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.”

— George Foreman

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

— George Foreman

67. “There’s never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You’d take one shot from him and you were sure he’d have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.”

— George Foreman

68. “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.”

— George Foreman

69. “Growing up poor, I didn’t even have a lunch to take to school.”

— George Foreman

70. “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

71. “Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I’m a happy camper!”

— George Foreman

72. “Excellence isn’t achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You’ve got to have both.”

— George Foreman

73. “I’m the world heavyweight champion. I consider myself a citizen of the whole world.”

— George Foreman

74. “Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.”

— George Foreman

75. “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.”

— George Foreman

76. “A boxer never sees the big one that hits him.”

— George Foreman

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

— George Foreman

78. “Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.”

— George Foreman

79. “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.”

— George Foreman

80. “As long as I’m reading, I’m at home.”

— George Foreman

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

— George Foreman

82. “I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.”

— George Foreman

83. “I didn’t come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free.”

— George Foreman

84. “If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.”

— George Foreman

85. “I didn’t love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.”

— George Foreman

86. “If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can’t go wrong.”

— George Foreman

87. “The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.”

— George Foreman

88. “A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.”

— George Foreman

89. “As a matter of fact, there was a period of time, especially in my first career, when that’s the only one who would work out with me: my dogs. As you get better and better working out, there’s no one who can keep up with you running.”

— George Foreman

90. “I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.”

— George Foreman

91. “My mother was watching on television and she doesn’t want me to hurt anyone.”

— George Foreman

92. “They say I don’t fight guys unless they’re on a respirator. That’s incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.”

— George Foreman

93. “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

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

— George Foreman

95. “I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.”

— George Foreman

96. “I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, “We gotcha.” America gotcha.”

— George Foreman

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

— George Foreman