Larry Holmes Quotes

I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali.

Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

Don King ain't a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don't hold any hard feelings toward him.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.

The worst situations in the world always start with the words, 'trust me.'

Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

I got messed up between my fight with Ken Norton and my fight with Larry Holmes; I got messed up with alcohol. I needed at least a year more experience, with three or four more fights before I fought Holmes. But I couldn't get any fights. Don King had all the contenders, and unless I signed myself over to him, I couldn't get a fight.

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

I did a job, [Don King] took money, probably more than he should have. If I was supposed to get $10 million, I was lucky to get $6.5 million. It happens and you can't do much, you decide whether to take it or leave it. King was a promoter, and he was good at it.

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

Anyhow, I don't think Don King's a very good man. But then again, I doubt that a good man *could* succeed in his business. I'm sure boxing was a dirty sport before he came around. He may have just made it moreso. So that's about all I've got to say about him.

I know a con when I see one.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .