Don King Quotes

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

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.

If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

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

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen.

Only in America could a Don King happen.

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

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

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

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.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Opportunity is the greatest charity.

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.

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

I cant believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.

You can be the greatest guy in the world but if you ain't got no heart, you ain't gonna survive.

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.

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

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

You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.

You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream.

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.

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I am so happy to be at Barclays Center. When I saw Brett Yormark, I thought to myself that he and his brother Michael are doing an amazing job.

I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.

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

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

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

I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

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

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.

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

It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.

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

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

The Dies tournament is always hard. We look forward to it every year from a competitive level. This is one of the biggest highlights of our season. This tournament has excellent tradition.

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

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.

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

Bernard Hopkins' accomplishments and achievements are far beyond that of the norm.

You can see the clouds rolling in and thunder is imminent.