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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.

Don King

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
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If Trump were a boxer, he'd be Muhammad Ali. Because he's going to win. He's going to run his mouth, he's going to talk a lot and he's going to win. And you ain't going to know which way he's going. You had the Louisville Lip, he'd be the New York Lip!
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I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
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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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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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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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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 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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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 don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
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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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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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I'm an ardent American Football fan.
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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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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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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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