"Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it."
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"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."
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"If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce."
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"Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym."
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"Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen."
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"Only in America could a Don King happen."
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"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."
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"I had a moment of religious epiphanosity."
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"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."
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"I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly"
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"I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties."
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"You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it."
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"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."
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"She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden."
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"Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child."
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"Opportunity is the greatest charity."
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"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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"Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?"
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"If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped."
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"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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