Don King Quotes

I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way.

My situation, and my opportunity, was the fourth tier in Swedish football and a place that nobody really wanted to go to. Of course it's turned out well for me.

I never dreamed I'd be in Congress, or even in the NFL, for that matter. Well, I guess I dreamed about being in the NFL, but I didn't believe it would happen. I'm not the biggest guy. But I guess that's the story of my life.

We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

I would love to do Tammi Terrell's story. I love stories of the underdog coming out on top and stories of survival.

Hard work and a good education will take you further than any government program.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto - I tell people you don't have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

The promoters in New Zealand weren't looking at me, they didn't see the potential. But when I was fighting in China they brought me over there as a journeyman so all their guys could whup up on me. Then they realised that's not gonna happen because I kept whupping up on their guys. Then they decided, 'Let's bring this guy into our team.'

There's a big difference between where I came from and the NFL. Things like this don't happen to people from there often. It just took a lot of hard work and dedication, staying on the right path, believing in myself, and having an inner drive.

The U.S. is where I was given the greatest opportunity to turn my life from a very nice one to an exceptional one.

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.

Every person has to keep in mind that they can grow up and reach the top, no matter where they are born, whether it's in Russia, in Ukraine, in Europe; they've still got the opportunity to show their talent and the culture of their people.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.

We're not just three dumb girls from the ghetto who got lucky.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

The mantra I grew up with was that no matter where you came from, hard work and education could set you free.

I was one of those guys who wasn't supposed to make it in this league.

Walking runway has been something I didn't even think would be a possibility in my lifetime with my circumstances and my origins.

Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.