Don King
Related SUGAR RAY LEONARD He's like the Muhammad Ali of football. Muhammad Ali was the trash-talker of boxing. It's funny, tho... CHARLES TILLMAN Right now, there's nobody out there to turn people on, ... This is the disease of Muhammad Ali ... W... ANGELO DUNDEE LARRY HOLMES CONOR MCGREGOR LARRY HOLMES ELVIS MITCHELL Muhammad Ali turns 70, I turn 50. Damn...when he was knocking people's socks off, I was learning to ... MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM CANELO ALVAREZ His great trick was making the game simple, supplying players with the confidence and self-belief of... JOHN MCGOVERN When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali, ANGEL JR. ANGEL CORDERO JR. SHONDA RHIMES HOWARD COSELL All of our jackets for NASCAR, major league baseball, the NBA, are licensed. We even made a jacket f... CRAIG GIBSON JIM LAMPLEY Muhammad does not believe in violence, Muhammad does not believe in punishment. He is the role model... HUSSAM AYLOUSH GEORGE FOREMAN LARRY HOLMES JAY-Z Would it be fun to watch Muhammad Ali box Muhammad Ali? Would it be fun to watch 10 Michael Jordans ... DAN ROSENBERG HUNTER S. THOMPSON JIM BROWN NICOLA ADAMS RALPH WALDO EMERSON My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show th... LENNIE JAMES HUNTER S. THOMPSON CANELO ALVAREZ WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO Some people have compared him walking on the court to Muhammad Ali getting into the ring. He was one... GREG GONZALES We believe that Muslims around the world must follow the example of Prophet Muhammad, who was compas... EHSAN AHMED GERRY COONEY I was leery, skeptical, but the more I thought about it, the title says 'world' champion, ... What m... LAMON BREWSTER ANDREA BOCELLI MUHAMMAD ALI ANTHONY JOSHUA NAGUIB MAHFOUZ GEORGE FOREMAN OLIVER REED An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976.... BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER GEORGE FOREMAN ELVIS MITCHELL BABYFACE BABYFACE I feel a necessity to speak out. I want to be the type of athlete that Muhammad Ali was. Dealing str... ETAN THOMAS Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted th... BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER Muhammad himself fostered this idea and, for years, tried to convince his family that he, Elijah of ... KARL EVANZZ JOHN MOTSON There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained ... MICHAEL ERIC DYSON BILL GATES HOLLY HOLM He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ... B. SMITH CONOR MCGREGOR ROBERT KENNEDY That's Muhammad. I see what he meant now, because he always goes. CHARLIE COLES RUDY GIULIANI GEORGE FOREMAN LAILA ALI JOHNNY BENCH It's cross-cultural, it's very spiritual. It reflects the gift that Muhammad (Ali) speaks of often�... MIKE FOX It's cross-cultural, it's very spiritual. It reflects the gift that Muhammad (Ali) speaks of often... MIKE FOX JOHN HENRIK CLARKE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze ... CHARLES FRANKLIN KETTERING We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze ... CHARLES KETTERING CHARLES F. KETTERING We are not a world capital. But I believe they have hope that disputing peoples will come here. I wo... TOM OWEN They threw the wild card in there. Jihad Muhammad, he was the MVP. You guys get a trophy together an... CHARLIE COLES The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period withou... YUSUF ISLAM NAGUIB MAHFOUZ What's it like finding out Denzel Washington wants you to direct his next movie? It's like g... ANTOINE FUQUA Chazz was one of the guys who had a story for every situation. He was the greatest storyteller. LEE DURLEY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN People made these cartoons and go on '60 Minutes,' Jerry Falwell said Muhammad is a terrorist, they ... ICGKC PRESIDENT SHAHIR SAHI There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man. REGINALD MAUDLING FAISAL KHOSA CAT STEVENS [Harrison's spirituality] was essential to his survival, ... He believed in reincarnation; he believ... ANTHONY DECURTIS WILT CHAMBERLAIN Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali. DICK SCHAAP There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man. REGINALD MAUDLING LEO TOLSTOY It was a must-win. Every game from now on is a must-win. DANIEL DILLON LORD HORATIO NELSON I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things an... DICK SCHAAP She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kan... DAN HILL MARTIN LUTHER He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. SIR FRANCIS BACON FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. FRANCIS BACON SR. Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but he is the Apostle of Allah and the Last of the pr... QURAN To criticize the prophet Muhammad is as direct an attack as mocking or attacking the Koran, which is... JOHN ESPOSITO ANONYMOUS LOUIS FARRAKHAN What we found was that maturational timing -- onset of first period -- was not an important factor f... AVIVA MUST We know that children who are overweight have advanced bone development -- they grow faster in all w... AVIVA MUST For the parents of a girl who is not overweight and who gets her first period early, it doesn't mean... 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Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. DON KING If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped. DON KING My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the peo... DON KING I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits.... DON KING I'm an ardent American Football fan. DON KING I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together. DON KING Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the u... DON KING My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I wen... DON KING I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people tie... DON KING Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen. DON KING There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot. DON KING It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the styl... DON KING James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown. DON KING Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you... DON KING Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met. DON KING Everything, but the Lindbergh baby. DON KING You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. DON KING Prior to Mike Tyson, we were generating close to $100 million a year. Now, Mike Tyson generates $100... DON KING He has blinding hand speed and great dexterity. He can punch going forwards and backwards which is t... DON KING I think Amir Khan is great. He showed great dexterity and lateral movement - Amir Khan has got it al... DON KING Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank. DON KING I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I... DON KING I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was w... DON KING [Comedian Colin Quinn said that having grown up in Cleveland, Ohio, King's subsequent prison term wa... DON KING We are coming to win and I think so much of Evans that I'm coming to Cardiff so we can go back with ... DON KING The truth of this tragedy is that we have pockets of poverty in the most powerful and affluent natio... DON KING Many people are criticizing the slowness of the process, DON KING gained his fame not by winning, but by losing. DON KING If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped. DON KING I can't believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said ... DON KING you don't get nothing from sleep but a dream. DON KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny. ALAN KING KING SOLOMON STEPHEN KING People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin... TED KING I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. TED KING I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ... TED KING Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a ... TABITHA KING Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. TABITHA KING In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe... TABITHA KING Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it. TABITHA KING Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, yo... TABITHA KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn&#... GAYLE KING I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is tota... KAKI KING Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the ... KAKI KING I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always wr... KAKI KING I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be ... KAKI KING I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want t... KAKI KING I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar. KAKI KING I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and... KAKI KING The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning... KAKI KING I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being ... KAKI KING I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, th... KAKI KING I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar. KAKI KING Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes. KAKI KING I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get of... KAKI KING There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I&... KAKI KING Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I ch... KAKI KING We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, ei... KAKI KING You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence a... KAKI KING KING SOLOMON Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women! STEVE KING If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think '... KERRY KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING LARRY KING STEPHEN KING RODNEY KING I followed a guy to Denmark. I came home with a broken heart. ELLE KING KING SOLOMON LARRY KING I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein. EARL KING I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. EARL KING Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I ... EARL KING If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kin... EARL KING I like to write a lot of satire. EARL KING I'll always remember when I bumped into Good Morning America's Robin Roberts on a flight to ... GAYLE KING I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the tr... JAIME KING In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set. KING VIDOR STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING FLORENCE KING We're often blinded by romance; we decide to not see things we don't want to see, and put up... GEORGIA KING Sometimes you have to listen to a CD over and over before you really get it, but as soon as I heard ... GAYLE KING LARRY KING STEPHEN KING Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the re... STEVE KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak... KING HUSSEIN Maman told me that every time you smile, a very tiny bit of the smile stays stuck to your face, so a... CLAIRE KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING I normally don't love green juices, but Body & Eden makes theirs tasty by blending ingredien... GAYLE KING FLORENCE KING STEPHEN KING STEPHEN KING FLORENCE KING The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King. B.B. KING STEPHEN KING If life hands you lemons, make lemonade! Words to live by, especially when you kept in mind t... STEPHEN KING A.S. 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Muhammad Ali was a god, an idol and an icon. He was boxing. Any kid that had the opportunity to talk... 
Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast ... 
Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine. 
I hate you. You beat Muhammad Ali. 
Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abras... 
I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto ... 
When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali, 
It’s not bragging if you can back it up,” I whisper to myself in the shower every morning. That ... 
I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. 
Everybody in my generation loved Muhammad Ali. What a horrid task to have to take on. 
Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valou... 
Muhammad could take a very good punch. He was slick, he could move, he could hit, make you miss, goo... 
I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. T... 
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he d... 
I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as wel... 
Muhammad Ali meant everything to me. He inspired me to box after watching re-runs of him winning a g... 
Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I
have composed for King Mahmud, th... 
I want to be like a Muhammad Ali, like a Julio Cesar Chavez. So when people talk about boxing, they ... 
In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there wa... 
Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to r... 
I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters a... 
No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some ... 
There's so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don't a... 
He knew Muhammad Iffat was of Turkish descent and stubborn as a mule. 
Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. The... 
'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muham... 
Initially I wanted to be Muhammad Ali. But then I got into a fight and I got my butt kicked, so I fi... 
I did a bit of boxing when younger. Once I was joined by Muhammad Ali as my co-commentator. I've... 
If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan... 
I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Mu... 
I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhamma... 
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatn... 
The crowds are going to be more than enough to present a challenge for the police and everybody else... 
In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Al... 
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... 
Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights one bout ... 
Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would ... 
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of... 
We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze ... 
Muhammad Iffat has an inflexible, Turkish mentality but a heart of gold. 
Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live. 
Never underestimate the audacity of hope (made Obama a President and Nelson Mandela a legend); never... 
The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period withou... 
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I... 
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human ... 
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your
king; and . . . you must hate a Frenc... 
I’m not suggesting anything. People get hurt every day. This matter must be cleared up, Joseph, fo... 
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying. 
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. 
There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. 
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad a... 
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe... 
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin... 
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it ... 
My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now... 
When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don... 
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a pos... 
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism wit... 
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalme... 
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexand... 
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifeti... 
Please, we can get along here. 
Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid. 