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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
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Entrepreneur
Record Producer
Cleveland
Ohio
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If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
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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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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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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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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'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.
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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'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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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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I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.
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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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I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly
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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.
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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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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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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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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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You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.
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