George Foreman Quotes

I basically raised myself.

I never helped my kids. I was working too hard. My kids had to be responsible for themselves.

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

I was a latchkey kid from the time I was 7 years old.

I guess when you are left on your own, you find your true potential. I remember my father never came to our school even once.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

I don't have a father, but my kids tell me every day that they love me... even when I am not in my best mood.

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half the time.

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there's quite a few that don't have any parents and that's where the whole problem is. There's no family life, no father to slap 'em around when they need it.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.