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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

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When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.

~George Foreman

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There are a lot of guys who are successful, they make a lot of big money, I mean millions overnight with a contract, and they don't understand the evaporation. It evaporates. You're always back to square one. I found that out, so integrity is how I do business. That's my main asset.

~George Foreman

Topics: Always Asset Back Big Big Money Business Contract Evaporates Found Guys How Integrity Lot Main Make Mean Millions Money Out Overnight Square Successful Understand Who You

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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.

~George Foreman

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Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

~George Foreman

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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

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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.

~George Foreman

Topics: Because Eat Fight Fighting Hamburger Joints Keep Keeps Me Only Out Planet The Only Thing Thing Want

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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

Topics: About Almighty Because Even High His Lord Might Out Pay Program Retirement Say Think Thought Very Working World You

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

~George Foreman

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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.

~George Foreman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: January 10th, 1949

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