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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.

Don King

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
Actor
Boxing Promoter
Entrepreneur
Record Producer
Cleveland
Ohio
Donald King
Boxing
Style
Guy
Knocks
Improvisation

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm an ardent American Football fan.
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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.
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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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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
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I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
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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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If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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