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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
Style
Guy
Knocks
Improvisation
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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I will fight for America till the day I drop.
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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.
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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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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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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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I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
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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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You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.
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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.
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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 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 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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I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
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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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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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