As an Olympic gold medalist and two-time heavyweight boxing champion, George Foreman understands what victory means. But a near-death experience led to his greatest triumph, when he found faith in Christ, he told an audience at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
Delivering the McLane Lecture in the Frank and Sue Mayborn Campus Center arena March 22, Foreman recalled the day he told his life story to his son.
“I realized that I’d raised a nice boy, but he didn’t know anything about me,” Foreman said. “So, I took him on a long ride and told him my story.”
Troubled youth
As a boy, Foreman skipped school most days, he said. Years later, after dropping out of school, he fell in with some young men from his neighborhood who tended to get in trouble.
After an evening spent evading police, Foreman decided he needed to change his life. He applied to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Job Corps program. During his tenure with the program, Foreman first considered trying boxing.
“One night, I was in the Job Corps center, and a boxing match came on the radio, and after the fight was over, the kids said: ‘George, you think you’re so big and tough. Why don’t you become a boxer?” he recalled.
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SOURCE: Baptist Standard
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