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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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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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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
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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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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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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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If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection.
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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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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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Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.
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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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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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