George Foreman was born on January 10, 1949 in Marshall, Texas. He grew up as one of 7 children in the 5th ward of Houston, Texas. George would be the first to admit it was a rough part of town. He was a self admitted thug who beat up and robbed people and figured he was destined to wind up like most of those around him. Dead or in jail.
However in 1966 George found hope when he saw Jim Brown on television advertising for a program called the Job Corps. President Lyndon Johnson had come up with the idea, and it gave troubled and young people with no direction a chance to go away and get a high school diploma and learn a trade. In George’s case he learned how to box in the Job Corps and subsequently made the 1968 Olympic team in Mexico City and won a gold medal representing his country. He had gotten the break he needed in life and took full advantage of it.
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