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GRAND: You also have five daughters. How'd you name them?
George Foreman: They have different names. My wife told me
"I'll remember the names." I have one Georgetta and one Frieda
George. Then I had to abandon the 'George.'
"
GRAND: Did you have any backlash from the boxing
community?
George Foreman: Everyone laughed. Then I got a check
because we had sold 3000, then 100,000. Believe me after 120
million worldwide, everybody stopped laughing.
GRAND: You wrote a book about fatherhood. Now you're a
grandfather. Are they similar or different?
"
Grandfatherhood is a whole
new challenge.
George with his family
GRAND: You've probably been
asked this before but can you tell
us why you named all of your sons
George Edward Foreman?
George Foreman: I tell them,
look, we all have the same names,
so if one goes down, remember,
we've committed the crime, or
we've done the great deed, or
however they choose to take us.
One name all the way and I gave
them something to fall back on.
Plus, if you're going to be in the
ring, hit by Mohammed Ali, Joe
Frazier, Ken Norton and Evander
Holyfield, there are not many
names you're going to remember
anyway.
17 GRAND
MAY JUNE 2018
George Foreman: You can't take fatherhood into grandfatherhood at all. It's a whole new challenge. You learn as you go.
Your children are the parents and you
are the grandfather. You gotta get that
separation.
GRAND:So, entrepreneurship; that
George Foreman Grill, how did that
opportunity come to you?
George Foreman: It started as a joke.
I made my comeback and everyone
was saying 'George is so big.' I was a hit
on Madison Avenue with lots of companies. A friend of mine said, 'George,
you're making all these other companies
wealthy. Why don't you get your own
product?' I said, 'OK, let's find one.' So
we found this grill and I started doing
my protein on it, hamburgers and steaks,
and the grease would actually roll away. I
didn't know it would be a huge success. I
was just hoping to get a few for myself!
George with granddaughter, Lola-Rose
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