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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.

Don King

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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
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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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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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I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.
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If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.
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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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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 wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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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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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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