Quotes from Don King

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

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

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.

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

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

America is supposed to be the richest and most powerful nation and we don't have health care for everybody.

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

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

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

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

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.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I went to lie down next to my wife, and my hair started popping and uncurling all on its own - ping, ping, ping, ping! I knew that it was God telling me to stay on the righteous path so he could one day pull me up to be there with him.

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

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

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

I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.

My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I'm in it to win, I cant give in, I can't give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.

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

Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee must bend, every tongue must confess, thou art the greatest, the greatest of all time, Muhammad, Muhammad Ali.

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

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.

I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then.

America is the greatest country in the world - I love America. What I've accomplished could not have been done anywhere else.