George Foreman Quotes

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

Many of the scrappy young people I meet who are the first in their family to go to college feel that they have to bring home a steady paycheck to make their family's sacrifices worthwhile.

I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

Most performers spend half their earnings taking care of family members.

I guess if you're lucky enough not to have to pay your rent, then you or I take much more seriously the kind of work that I do, what it takes for me to leave two teenagers of my own and six stepchildren and a husband and four grandchildren.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

While growing up, I saw how finances can play havoc in anybody's life. While we were comfortable, money didn't come easy.

As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.

I have no problem talking about how hard it's been, how broke I've been, and how broke I was not even that long ago.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

I had a lot of college debt. It's very difficult to go to a university that is as expensive as Stanford and then blindly follow your passions when they don't immediately make money out of the gate.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemployment benefits.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

It's a little hard to go out there and spend your money on a home, car, or goods and services if your wages are being garnished to make debt collectors rich.

When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don't have to give.

I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.

I was illustrating, and I was cleaning people's houses; I was doing whatever I could to take care of my kid as a single parent.