George Foreman Quotes

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It's obvious Cotto can't take Torres' best shots but Torres can take Cotto's best.... BOOM! :atu:

 

George crazy

 

foreman was enthralled by the shoulders of oscar delahoya

 

one of my favorites thats not in those montages, during jones-griffin 2:

"jones is playing the feinting game and griffin is benefitting by it"..... BOOM down goes griffin knocked fucking silly

 

Foreman owns Larry

 

Some shockers in there, but Merchant baited Foreman endlessly in their debates. I go back & forth on who to support in those --- Foreman is arguably my all-time favourite fighter, & he's damn right with what he said at one point --- Merchant can't know everything without having boxed.

On the other hand, Foreman damned himself with so many ridiculous calls, & what I always liked about Merchant was his intention to ask fighters the tough questions, & not necessarily pander to the house fighter --- two rare qualities indeed. If at-times appalling arrogance, a fuzzy mind-set (so routine to see him mixing metaphors & muddling his speech, with the more articulate Lampley on constant guard to correct him), & a desperate, unending search for a HOF soundbyte in every telecast were the prices to pay, they were worth it.

At the end of the day, & for right reasons or wrong, I really loved the Merchant-Lampley-Foreman-Lederman crew at the height of their powers. Very enjoyable bunch, IMO.

 

Big George always talked about fighters' sweat

 

Sweat cannot roll pitifully, any more than a river can flow, "excruciatingly."

 

Foreman was awesome, I loved him. I think his goofball statements really added something....a levity to proceedings, or just a plain old sense of fun. And that can only be provided by a guy with so much inherent credibility and authority or it's totally out of place around such a serious sport. It's difficult to replace what George brought to the table I think. Sometimes things just WORK for reasons that are downright odd and unreplicable.

 

@ "He Broke his LEGS!"

 

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@ sometimes sweat falls pitifully, sometimes it just falls

 

::::Wow.. Great thread!

Foreman really brought a lot to the show...

:bears:

 

great stuff..."I think it shocked your world Larry." ::

 

"Sure the fight was fixed; I fixed it with a right hand" - George.

 

"The referee is gonna be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters".

 

:::bears:::

 

"On this night the ref is going to be the most important man in the ring other than the fighters."

 

"He's reluctant because he's hesitant."

 

Yeah, I remember him mentioning them on more than one occasion...didn't they become more of an issue for him after he started working with Steward?

I seem to remember them being a topic in the Kamau fight, or somewhere around that time...I believe they mentioned during the boradcast Steward had him on weights or something, at 147, and he didn't agree with it.

 

according to George, ODH's shoulders stopped Trinidad in his tracks...

 

imo, Foreman sucked hard. He had his blind squirrel moments, but i don't miss him at all

 

"Oscar's intimidating him with his shoulders."

:laughing:

 

The Michael Grant knockdown, right?

He did tear a knee ligament that fight...I'd always assumed it was from that knockdown, it certainly looked bad when he went down.

 

I remember it being a multi-fight obsession.

 

tough. the fight should have continued.

 

"Can you imagine a woman, giving instructions?"

 

My fav is after Gatti knocked out Terron Millet. During the replays George was like "Gatti throwing combinations looking like Ray Leonard."

Then Lampley says, with a "WTF did he just say?" tone to his voice goes "Well..... sort of."

 

You know I always thought he kinda vaugely had something with that. A physically big opponent can push you back without even touching you just with the space he seems to take up (something Foreman took great advantage of). Of course DLH was not especially physically big at 147lb.::