The Champ: heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman, New York City. 1995
“During a break, Foreman told me that he was saved by a ‘benevolent society.’ He had been
doing poorly in school and was getting into trouble. Fearing police were looking for him,
he hid under his family’s home and covered himself in sand, breathing through a straw.
There had to be a better way. His salvation was a government-sponsored anti-poverty
boxing program, the Job Corps, that led to his Olympic gold medal and eventually the World Championship.
