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

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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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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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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 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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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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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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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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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You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.
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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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I will fight for America till the day I drop.
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