George Foreman Quotes

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.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.

Mayweather was my first professional defeat and I took it really, really hard.

I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.

I've been in that situation many times before - where I'm losing and I have to knock a guy out.

We're going to go back to the drawing board and see what we can correct. But at the end of the day, we fought Manny Pacquiao in a chess match, we did well and what doesn't kill us will make us stronger.

Usyk could beat me - he's beaten better than me, so he could beat me - but I just don't think he will, and I will find a way.

I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

When I lost to Ray Mercer, I was young. I deserved to lose that fight because I hadn't learned how to cover all the angles in preparation. I was immature.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Hope is not a strategy.

Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.

I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win.

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.

Heaven knows, we all make mistakes. That's life - and chess.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.