George Foreman Quotes

"Food makes me happy." "I`m on a see-food diet. I see food, I eat it." (plugging his TV series) "And you better be watching, or I`ll beat you up and eat all of your food."

On his boxing comeback, "I didn`t come back for the money. I just got sick of beating people up for free."

"I called them all George because I was worried that when I was older I might suffer from memory loss. I would have called my five girls George, too, but my wife said she thought that was overkill. When one of them is naughty, I shout `George!` and that one knows who I mean. The only time it is awkward for me is when a teacher calls up and say we have a problem with George, and I have to ask them which one."

"As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I`d get locked in a grocery store."

"I never did anything for personal gain. When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world. If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can`t go wrong. That`s what I tell my kids, anyway."

I am a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

I`m a winner each and every time I go into the ring.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn`t afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po`.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

The question isn`t at what age I want to retire, it`s at what income.

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.

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.

They`ll take everything, even your tears.

I`ve seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

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.

A hero is someone right who doesn`t change.

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.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

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.

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.