You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn't mean anything. Leave something that we're all going to benefit from. I think that's what I'd like to do.
Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.
You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.
We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we loved each other. I am not closer to anyone else in this life than I am to Muhammad Ali. Why? We were forged by that first fight in Zaire, and our lives are indelibly linked by memories and photographs, as young men and old men.
I feel that I had been rescued from the gutter by America. One day I was under the gutter, chased by police, thinking dogs were going to get me. I laid there listening to the dogs and the gutter. The next day, there I am standing on the Olympic platform, and you hear the anthem. I was proud.
When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.
My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
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'm a winner each and every time I go into the ring.
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
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.
Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.
I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake.
You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world.
All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.
I look at my children and one thing I'm most proud of, in my heart, are my children.
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.
After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend.
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.
