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...closing five minutes of the final segment, he said, would show the foreman standing to give the verdict of the trial and an earthquake that reduced the courtroom to rubble—from which a hand wearing a glove would rise...
Well, I preached like this for three months. Then one day in a housing project in Shreveport, La., I decided that I would use that guy George Foreman to sell what I believed in. When I was a kid, no one followed the water trucks. But let a fire engine roar by, and people poured out of their buildings in their pajamas, rollers in their hair. I had to be that fire truck...
...yelled out, "Yes, I'm George Foreman. I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I fought Muhammad Ali. I fought Joe Frazier." And they stopped. They asked, "George Foreman, is that you?" I said, "Yes, and now I want to tell you what God can do for you." And I preached my first real sermon...
From that moment, I used George Foreman, and the invitations started coming from all over the world. In 1979 I was ordained, and in 1980 I started my own church. In 1983 I used my life's savings to create a youth center in Houston...
...biggest turning point of my life wasn't becoming heavyweight champion. It was the moment I stood on a street corner and said, "I'm George Foreman." --As told to Francine Russo