Don King Boxing Quotations

We're here to make sure people of all colors realize that boxing is in the ascendancy, and these two fighters are driving the rocket.

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.

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

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.

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.

His credibility is zilch, virtually nil.

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

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

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

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.

Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again. I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit.

Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I will fight for America till the day I drop.

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

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

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 cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly

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.

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.

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

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'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.

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

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

When we started, it was based on lies. It's changing now. There are no secrets in the business. You've got to come with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It's becoming very confusing.

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.