Muhammad Ali George Foreman Quotes & Sayings

In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it. — Wladimir Klitschko

In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, 'This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for'. No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost. — George Foreman

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. — George Foreman

The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman. — Howard Cosell

Sometimes that which seems ordinary is really most extraordinary of all. — M.P. Kozlowsky

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind. — Muhammad Ali

Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is. — George Foreman

There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer. — George Foreman

How often do we find the blind leading the not-so-blind? — Asoka Nimal Jinadasa

They sat silently for a moment. — Lois Lowry

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor. — Joel Kinnaman

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we'll look back at the first decade of the 21st century when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we'd crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once? — Thomas Friedman

I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright. — Rene Descartes

I'm on the record for five losses or something like that, but the one guy who really whipped me was Muhammad Ali. And it taught me one big lesson. That no matter how big and strong you are, you're going to have to use your mind. You must think things out. — George Foreman

We eat healthy because we want to feel healthy - fantasies of living longer should not trump the importance of living stronger. — Jason Manheim

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. — George Foreman

I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept. — Muhammad Ali

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure. — Walter Moers

The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes. — P. J. O'Rourke

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. — Pat Conroy

You came into my life. You pulled me away from my pain. You molded me into a better person, but I think that was what I needed then ... not now. — K.A. Linde

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won. — Muhammad Ali

Getting up to Zaire - getting ready to fight Muhammad Ali - I thought this will be a matter of just a little exercise. I'll probably knock him out in three rounds. Two, three - maybe three and a half rounds. That was the most confidence I had in my whole life. — George Foreman