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

"Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since."

"All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them."

"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."

"A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles."

"All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from."

"You don't know what it is to be heavyweight champ of the world until you become the heavyweight champ of the world."

"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."

"When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'."

"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."

"I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard."

"When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ."

"I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them."

"I wanted to be champ of the world, but I kept hoping something would happen to Frazier. I didn't want to fight him. Nobody wanted to fight Joe Frazier."

"You wouldn't meet a Joe Frazier down today and then up tomorrow, said hello to big shots then ignore someone on the lower level; he was the most consistent human being. What you see is what you get."

"It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training."

"You don't have to try to hurt people and be angry to be an athlete."

"I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights."

"But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families."

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

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

"I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day."

"I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change."

"The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers."

"We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of Floyd Mayweather, George Foreman, Manny Pacquiao. We'll overstay our welcome."

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

"As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If you don't have a good dog, it's going to be the most lonesome training camp you'll ever have."

"Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy."

"It's strange because you - your life goes so swiftly. You look up one day you're a teenager, the next day you're a grandfather and you want to decide, 'I sure hope my kids don't make the same mistakes.'"

"If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway."

"The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion."

"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."

"Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper."

"My friends know that they're my friends - even my enemies know that they're my friends."

"I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'"

"The fighters who give it all will be around for next year. Give it all you've got. Don't save anything."

"Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave."

"Evil lurks where disappointment lodges."

"They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with."

"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."

"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."

"My favorite drink is water - the bland one: Evian. I stick with that. I celebrate in the evening sometimes with Perrier. That's why I love coming to California. They're always talking to you about bottled water."

"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."

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

"Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation."

"I never get upset about what I read in the newspaper. I realize that every human being can make a difference in this world."

"Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison."

"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."