Top 78 Don King Quotes
#1. I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.
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#2. When you lose the title, that doesn't mean you lose the contract to what you had. Just like when you win the title, it doesn't mean you win brains, PhDs and MAs.
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#3. I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
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#4. You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?
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#5. James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.
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#6. Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.
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#7. I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then.
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#8. People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.
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#9. Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.
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#10. Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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#11. Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.
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#12. He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.
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#13. You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.
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#14. Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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#15. I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.
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#16. I've whipped the Harvard graduate's ass. Nothing against Harvard - it's a hell of a school - but there I was, twenty five yards behind, wrapped in leg irons, and I beat him.
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#17. I will fight for America until the day I drop.
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#18. I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.
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#19. Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.
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#20. All of my fighters should get down on their knees and thank me for what I've done for them.
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#21. When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.
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#22. Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.
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#23. Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.
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#24. You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.
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#25. When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.
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#26. You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent.
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#27. From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.
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#28. If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.
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#29. You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.
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#30. Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.
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#31. Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
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#32. There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.
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#33. Opportunity is the greatest charity.
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#34. I will fight for America till the day I drop.
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#35. There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.
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#36. I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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#37. I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
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#38. My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I'm in it to win, I cant give in, I can't give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.
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#39. Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!
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#40. Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.
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#41. Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.
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#42. There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.
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#43. I am so happy to be at Barclays Center. When I saw Brett Yormark, I thought to myself that he and his brother Michael are doing an amazing job.
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#44. You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.
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#45. You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.
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#46. You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.
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#47. If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
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#48. Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.
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#49. She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.
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#50. If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.
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#51. Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.
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#52. I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.
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#53. I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.
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#54. When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America.
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#55. The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition.
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#56. Only in America could a Don King happen.
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#57. Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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#58. They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting judges, all the way down to laundering money. Everything but the Lindbergh baby.
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#59. If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.
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#60. I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.
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#61. There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.
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#62. I'm an ardent American Football fan.
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#63. Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon ... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
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#64. I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.
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#65. If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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#66. His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.
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#67. I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.
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#68. This is a setback. You get back up, you dust yourself off, and you get back in the game. We had a great singer named Ray Charles who wrote a song called 'Drowning in My Tears.' You can't afford to drown in your tears. You gotta go back, rededicate yourself, redouble your efforts, and persevere.
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#69. I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
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#70. Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.
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#71. It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
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#72. I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.
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#73. You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
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#74. I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
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#75. You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.
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#76. He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.
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#77. Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding.
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#78. Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.
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