"They'll take everything, even your tears."

"Don't be afraid to employ people who will force you out of your comfort zone."

"Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try."

"To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives."

"Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions."

"Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible."

"To succeed in business, you need somebody in your corner who cares enough to challenge you and is courageous enough to tell you the truth, especially when the pressure is on."

"The best entrepreneurs have found a way to serve others and as a result discover their greatest fulfillment."

"In your business or in your close relationships, if you want people to perform Herculean feats on your behalf, they must know that you care about them."

"As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you."

"Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need."

"You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts."

"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day."

"I love the UFC. I love it. If they had had that back when I was coming up, in 1966, it would have been my sport. Man, I love it. And you know what? Nobody would have pulled the rope-a-dope on me."

"I want to tell everybody that there is really a living God."

"I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way."

"Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring."

"Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back."

"You've got to have a focus. You just fight for money, you get hurt. You focus on the title, you'll just naturally make money doing it."

"You got to look nice. If you got 10 kids, they'll talk about you if you don't look nice."

"When you speak to a lot of kids, as I've done over the years, you know what to say, keep them laughing, good illustrations and learn to read."

"When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow."

"I just don't know how I was able to be a boxer in the first place without believing God."

"You've got to keep a dog with you at all times. A dog cannot roam. You've got to keep him in the house with you. You can't have a wild dog and expect days to go good."

"When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own."

"Frazier was not a big man at all. Frazier was about 5'9, but he would make anyone run. Put up your dukes and cover up because he's coming. He never backed up from anyone."

"There shouldn't be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn't be any budget problems."

"I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches."

"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."