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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.

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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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 will fight for America till the day I drop.
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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
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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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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'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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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 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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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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She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.
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From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.
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If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
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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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Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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