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...Foreman was 29 when he retired. He had run through millions, once spiraling into a depression because he could not think of anything new to buy; but he had done one smart thing: he had stuck $1 million into a pension fund. Today he lives off the interest...
...Foreman has told the tale so many times he could do it without thinking; nonetheless, the telling puts him in a sweat. "I was walking in the dressing room, trying to cool down. I was telling myself, 'You don't have to box. You can retire to your ranch and die.' Die? Where did that come from? I didn't put that word in there. But the word kept sneaking into my head. Then a voice said, 'You believe in God. Why you scared to die?' I said, 'I can still give money to charities and cancer,' and the voice...
...bought a Cadillac last week," Foreman said the other day. "I mean, it's been eight years since I had a decent car. I love this truck"--as he spoke, he was driving his Ford pickup around his 200-acre ranch outside Marshall, Texas--"but it's a truck. I got rid of the Mercedes, the Rolls-Royce, all that stuff, because it made people stiffen up. Like they wanted to compete. They're more relaxed when I don't have a good car. But I needed a car, an American car, and I needed a big car because...
Living humbly is important to Foreman. He even shed himself of a grand place in Houston for an $81,000 house in a suburb called Humble. He preaches on the weekends and Wednesday nights, mows his yard, trims his hedges and spends two days a week on the ranch, threading his truck between slash pines and pin oaks to haul feed to his cows and horses. Animals are his passion--animals and sleeping and eating. "I think sleeping was my problem in school," he allowed. "If school had started at around 4 o'clock in the afternoon...
Eating has at times given him the dimensions of an outdoor sanitary facility. "People say George Foreman eats a dozen eggs and a pound of bacon for breakfast. That's a lie. I eat eleven eggs." He is trying to lose 45 lbs. to get down to an ideal 225. "It's sad. You work all your life to make it, and then...