Boxing Quotes - Page 20

• 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

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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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• 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, May, Problem

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• 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

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• I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

  Don King

  Doors, Boards, Kicks

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

  Don King

  Snow, Pay, Panama

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• 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, Desert

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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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• 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, Needs

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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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• 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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• 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

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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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• Boxing is really hard because you have to be in really good shape to have all those rules and just using your hands.

  Bonnie Canino

  Hands, Shapes, Hard

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I can't watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era when it was exciting. Now it's all bob and weave, a punch here and there. It is not entertaining.

  Usain Bolt

  Fighting, Bob, Eras

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.

  Chael Sonnen

  Mean, Needs, Defense

  "Learn 3 Grappling Techniques From UFC Star Chael Sonnen". Interview with Lito Angeles, blackbeltmag.com. October 11, 2011.

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