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.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
They'll take everything, even your tears.
Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.
All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.
All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.
I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard.
I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world.
I just don't know how I was able to be a boxer in the first place without believing God.
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great man.
When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.
My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
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.
You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete.
I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.
Put your name on something, it better be the best... You only get one shot.
When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.
The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.
Generally when there's a lot of smoke... There's just a whole lot more smoke.
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.
As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.
Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world.
Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.
