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I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
Actor
Boxing Promoter
Entrepreneur
Record Producer
Cleveland
Ohio
Donald King
Cease
Never
Amaze
Humbly
Boxing

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I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.
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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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Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.
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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.
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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.
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America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.
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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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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.
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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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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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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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Don't worry about appeasing the establishment. Don't acquiesce to an alleged power. Be with the people, not the establishment. The guy that's sitting next to you, that's who you got to beware. Judas was sitting right next to Jesus.
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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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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
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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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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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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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