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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 King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
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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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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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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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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 don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.
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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 will fight for America till the day I drop.
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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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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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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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I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
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You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.
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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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