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

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
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Promote
Boxing
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People

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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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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.
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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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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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I will fight for America till the day I drop.
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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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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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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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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
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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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I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
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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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