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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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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
Actor
Boxing Promoter
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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
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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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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 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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Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.
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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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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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She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.
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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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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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Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
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I tell Donald Trump that the establishment will tell their lies. They will try to keep him down. I tell him, 'Now Mr. Trump, they're treating you like a black man.' I say, 'Mr. President, you know what it's like to be a black man. No matter what you say or do, you are guilty as hell.'
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