Don King Quotes About Boxing

Quotes about: Boxing

• Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it.

  Don King

  Country, Hate, America

• 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.

  Don King

  Business, Agreement, Deserve You

• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

• 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.

  Don King

  Lying, Boxing, Confusing

• America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.

  Don King

  Country, America, Boxing

• Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has been a long, hard and excruciatingingly painful road. For more than five years there has been one investigation after another and now, vindication. And to give the proper dimension I take the cherished words of the late great Dr Martin Luther King: Free at last...thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.

  Don King

  Kings, Men, Years

• 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.

  Don King

  War, Animal, Men

• I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

  Don King

  Boxing, Cease

• Do I play tennis? Man, I had one of the baddest overhead rights of anyone. Bam!

  Don King

  Men, Rights, Play

• I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

  Don King

  Tired, Boxing, Energy

• 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.

  Don King

  Mean, Winning, Boxing

• 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.

  Don King

  Ghetto, Men, Numbers

• Larry is like a son to me and we enjoy a most wonderful relationship, one with meaning, dignity, pride, understanding and purpose. But more importantly, one of mutual respect. Larry and I both pride ourselves on being men of our word and when we say we will be together for life it is not just convention but is said with feeling and commitment that comes from struggling together, growing together and being family.

  Don King

  Struggle, Commitment, Pride

• If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he
  hopped.

  Don King

  Funny, Wings, Boxing

  "The Daily Show" with Stephen Colbert, www.imdb.com.

• Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.

  Don King

  Boxing, Pennies, Given

• 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.

  Don King

  Baby, Fighting, Men

• Michael seems to have lost his values temporarily. He just has to be worked with, disciplined and talked to and given some tender loving care and understanding.

  Don King

  Boxing, Understanding, Care

• 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.

  Don King

  Sports, Dirty, Boxing

• I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties.

  Don King

  Lying, Ties, People

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996.

• Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.

  Don King

  America, Space, People

• You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal.

  Don King

  Thinking, Boxing, May

• If you envy me whatever modicom of success that I enjoy, you must also envy me my time, my labour, my finance, my anxiety, my frustration and my determination. Jose Sulaiman is the greatest boxing man that I have ever met. I think he is a knight in shining armour for the boxer, but I always insulate myself with the rules.

  Don King

  Determination, Frustration, Men

• I'm the best promoter in the world because I haven't taken a day off work since I left the penitentiary, and because I have read all the great philosophers like St. Thomas Aquinine.

  Don King

  Taken, Boxing, Days Off

• There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.

  Don King

  Boxing, Giants, Three

• When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

  Don King

  Boxing

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