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If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

George Foreman

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George Foreman
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 10
Boxer
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Professional Boxer
Marshall
Texas
George Edward Foreman
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