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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

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
Longevity
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Performances
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Inspirational

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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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Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.
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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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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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I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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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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You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.
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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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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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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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Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
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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'm an ardent American Football fan.
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I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
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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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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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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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