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 dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

  Don King

  Men, Wings, Boxing

• Integrity, number one. Even in business that's predicated on lies I refuse to become part of the lies that is all-consuming.

  Don King

  Integrity, Lying, Numbers

• I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.

  Don King

  Boxing, Bob

  "Don King: Only in America". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1997.

• I'll pay them right after it snows in Panama. Let Eleta pay them if he feels so strongly about it.

  Don King

  Snow, Boxing, Pay

• 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.

  Don King

  Boxing, Substance, Pizzazz

• Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank

  Don King

  Kings, Boxing, Mountain

• Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have coffee and cocktails with presidents and dictators. I'm an international figure, a citizen of the world. I've made it.

  Don King

  Dream, Coffee, Boxing

• You ever stop to think they can't rob you of knowledge? They can strip you and you've still got it.

  Don King

  Thinking, Boxing, Stills

• I will fight for America till the day I drop.

  Don King

  Fighting, America, Boxing

• You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

  Don King

  Animal, Night, Boxing

• 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

  Fighting, Opportunity, America

• Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

  Don King

  Men, Jail, Boxing

• 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.

  Don King

  People, Boxing, Important

• There's only one rule anyone connected with boxing must keep in mind - everything you here in boxing is a lie.

  Don King

  Lying, Boxing, Mind

• His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

  Don King

  Boxing, Credibility

• Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.

  Don King

  Boxing, Thanks, Fighter

• 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

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