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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.

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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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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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 wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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I will fight for America till the day I drop.
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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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You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.
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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
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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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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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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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Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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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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There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.
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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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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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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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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.
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