Don King: 13 Quotes Without Any Trickeration

Some people claim that boxing promoter Don King has enriched the English language; others, that he has mangled it.

But he has said some entertaining things and invented some words.

And Don King does love America--he's said so many times publicly.

DBKP presents a baker's dozen of Don King quotes, a Don King video and three documented Don King coined words.

"I can't 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."

"Only in America."

"If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped."

"I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else."

"You don't get nothing from sleep but a dream."

"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."

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

"Everything, but the Lindbergh baby."
--on what the FBI was investigating him for.

"Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank."

"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."

"I'm one of the world's great survivors. I'll always survive because I've got the right combination of wit, grit and bullshit."

"Thank god for money."

“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.”


Don King in 2006 talking on CNN about President George W. Bush. Say what you will, Don King does not back down in his support of Bush.

The Don King Lexicon

attestation: "I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation."

besmirchify: "Don't besmirchify me."

trickeration: "Don't try trickeration on me."

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Fidel Castro: Fifteen Memorable Quotes

Fidel Castro has resigned.

Finally.

Officially.

Let the celebrations in Miami begin!

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008. He came to power in an armed revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, and was shortly thereafter sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba.

In 1965 he became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic.

In 1976 he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers. He also held the supreme military rank of Comandante en Jefe ("Commander in Chief") of the Cuban armed forces.

On July 31, 2006, after undergoing intestinal surgery for diverticulitis, he transferred his responsibilities to the First Vice-President, his younger brother Raúl Castro.

On February 19, 2008, five days before his current mandate expired, he announced he would not seek nor accept a new term as either president or commander-in-chief.

Last year in September, Castro was quoted as saying that he was "determined to outlast President George Bush.

He didn't achieve that goal, nor many of his others since seizing power in Cuba almost 50 years ago.

We present fifteen Fidel Castro quotes to celebrate his resignation.

"A revolution is not a bed of roses. "

-- Castro in 1959.


"I'm not thinking to cut my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government I will cut my beard."

--Castro in 1959, interview with CBS's Edward Murrow, 30 days after revolution.


"One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates."

--Castro to director Oliver Stone in 2003 documentary "Comandante."


"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

--Castro in the Observer


"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

--Fidel Castro



"I feel it is my duty to be more disciplined, do my exercises and take maximum care of myself -- even if only to mortify [his opponents] a little longer."

--The Cuban leader explaining his motives for keeping in shape.


"I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes."

--on NY Mayor Rudy Guiliani


"The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs."


"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."


"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement."




"They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?"

--Fidel Castro


"I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba."

--Fidel Castro


"I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition."

--Fidel Castro


"I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis . . .discovering Marxism . . .was like finding a map in the forest."

--Castro


"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure (Jesus Christ)."

--Castro in 1985.

15 quotes from Fidel Castro, until yesterday, the absolute leader and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Cuba.

Others reporting in FIDEL-a-VISION this morning * Lawhawk has a nice roundup of All Things Fidel: Meet the New Boss; Same as the Old Boss * Jammie Wearing Fool has the expected reactions of the Left: Cadaver Resigns, Left in Mourning * Ed Driscoll has a nice Fidel-A-Rama: Aging, Ailing Cuban Dictator "Retires" * Michelle Malkin has "Castro to Resign: 'This is Not my Farewell to You'"

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