Don King Quotes

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

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

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

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

Only in America could a Don King happen.

Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.

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

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

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

All of my fighters should get down on their knees and thank me for what I've done for them.

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

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 get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

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

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

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

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

I will fight for America until the day I drop.

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

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

I'm an ardent American Football fan.

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

I will fight for America till the day I drop.

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

Don King is a damn sleezebag. King is nothing but a strong-arm man. He has taken his gangsterism and put it into boxing.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

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

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.

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

Opportunity is the greatest charity.

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

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

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

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

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

His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.

You can't rule the world, but what you can do is win the world with love and understanding.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.

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

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

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

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

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