Don King
Don King
Donald "Don" Kingis an American boxing promoter known for his involvement in historic boxing matchups. He has been a controversial figure, partly due to a manslaughter conviction, and civil cases against him...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSports Executive
Date of Birth20 August 1931
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.
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If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.
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Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
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When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.
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There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.
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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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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.
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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.
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I will fight for America till the day I drop.
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I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.
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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.
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I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.
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You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent.
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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.