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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
Steak
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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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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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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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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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I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.
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Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
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I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.
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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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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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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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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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I'm an ardent American Football fan.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.
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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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