Boxing Quotes - Page 14

• I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

  Don King

  Religious, Moments

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

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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.

  Don King

  Men, Wings, Imagination

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• 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, President

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

  Don King

  Pennies, Given, Tyson

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

  Don King

  Giants, Three, Lifetime

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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.

  Don King

  Practice, White, Black

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• 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, Stills

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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.

  Don King

  People, Important, Assets

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

  Don King

  Tired, Energy, God Speaking

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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.

  Don King

  Baby, Fighting, Men

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

  Don King

  Bob

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

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

  Don King

  Fighting, America

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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.

  Don King

  Mean, Winning, Brain

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• 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

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

  Don King

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• His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

  Don King

  Credibility

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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.

  Don King

  Ghetto, Men, Numbers

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• 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, Days Off, World

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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.

  Don King

  Substance, Pizzazz, Protection

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• When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

  Joe Louis

  Government, Owing, Broke

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• If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass

  Larry Merchant

  Years, Ass, Kicks

  "Analyst Larry Merchant to End Run With HBO Boxing After 35 Years" by Jose Martinez, www.complex.com. December 14, 2012.

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• He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

  Mike Tyson

  Gestures, Cry

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• So when do I meet the champ?

  Chuck Wepner

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• Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

  Teddy Atlas

  Sports, Water, Champion

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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.

  Don King

  School, Iron, Twenties

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