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Don King Promoter
Boxing

"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."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Boxing

"I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape."

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Don King Promoter
Boxing

"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."

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Don King Promoter
Boxing

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

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Don King Promoter
Boxing

"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."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Boxing

"I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like"

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Vinny Paz Rapper
Boxing

"On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Boxing

"I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Boxing

"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."

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