Don King Quotes - Page 2

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• I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

  Don King

  Dream, American Dream, Nations

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• 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.

  Don King

  Kings, America, Boxing

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• Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly, one of mutual respect. Larry and I both pride ourselves on being men of our word and when we say we will be together for life it is not just convention but is said with feeling and commitment that comes from struggling together, growing together and being family.

  Don King

  Struggle, Commitment, Pride

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• 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.

  Don King

  Mean, Winning, Boxing

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• There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.

  Don King

  Boxing, Giants, Three

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• I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

  Don King

  Doors, Boxing, Boards

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• 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.

  Don King

  Sports, Dirty, Boxing

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• 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.

  Don King

  Men, People, Boxing

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• 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.

  Don King

  Believe, Boxing, Espn

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• Oh yes, the Klitschkos. They got to learn how to fight. Period. But I'll tell you one thing - they're great human specimens. And I'd be happy to be able to work with them. If they chose to work with me. They had an opportunity when they got free of Peter Kohl - they didn't come to me. You know, I'm with who's with me. And I really don't care what fighter it is. I would be happy to promote them..Who could beat Vitali? Rahman could beat Vitali. His style is suited to beat Vitali.

  Don King

  Fighting, Opportunity, Style

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• I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

  Don King

  Tired, Boxing, Energy

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• 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.

  Don King

  Practice, White, Boxing

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• When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

  Don King

  Boxing

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• If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he
  hopped.

  Don King

  Funny, Wings, Boxing

  "The Daily Show" with Stephen Colbert, www.imdb.com.

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• Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.

  Don King

  Kings, Men, Years

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• Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

  Don King

  Beautiful, Greek, Forgiving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

  Don King

  Thinking, Boxing, Stills

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• He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

  Don King

  Stupid, Speak English, Speak

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• 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.

  Don King

  People, Boxing, Important

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• Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

  Don King

  Kings, America, Barack

  "Only in America!: An Interview with Don King". Interview with Greg Hanlon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2009.

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• America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.

  Don King

  Powerful, Care, Health Care

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Trump has the opportunity to be a Founding Father. You know why? Because Jeff Sessions comes from Alabama, where the constitution is staunchly racist. So it's not whether Sessions is racist but where he comes from. Trump can bring him in the mix and they open up a chance to do what a freedom fighter doesn't If Trump can help change what Sessions has been taught all his life, he can do more for the uplifting of the downtrodden than anyone else.

  Don King

  Uplifting, Father, Opportunity

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

  Don King

  People, Boxing, Together

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• 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.

  Don King

  Baby, Fighting, Men

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• 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.

  Don King

  Boxing, Substance, Pizzazz

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