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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
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Steak
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I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
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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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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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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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America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.
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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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Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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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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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'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 wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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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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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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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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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'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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