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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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Don King
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: August 20
Actor
Boxing Promoter
Entrepreneur
Record Producer
Cleveland
Ohio
Donald King
Promoters
Steak
Sauce
Gotta
Enthusiasm
Sell
Sells
Sizzle
Sizzling

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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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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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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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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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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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Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.
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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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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 an ardent American Football fan.
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Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.
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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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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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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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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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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 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 wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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