Don King: Only in America (1997 TV Movie)

Ving Rhames: Don King

Quotes 

• [in a restroom] 

  George Foreman : Aren't you gonna wash your hands?

  Don King : I wash my hands *before* I touch my dick.

• Don King : Black people don't get no credit for nothing. All we've got is one word. That word is motherfucker.

• [last lines] 

  Don King : Let me write it down for you. Muhammad Ali is a multimillionaire. Larry Holmes a multimillionaire. Mike Tyson he sleeps on a bed of money. HBO I made you motherfuckers a fortune. Oh I could go on and on. You love my black ass! You know why? Because I'm exciting. You ain't making no movie on Bob Arun, are you? It's entertainment, baby! That's all! Heroes and villains, angels and devils, shit if you didn't have Don King you would have to invent them. And for all of you out there saying this and that, remember this: many fighters step into the ring, but only one is still king.

• Don King : I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

• [about Mike Tyson biting off Evander Holyfield's ear] 

  Don King : Y'all probably blame me for that. If it were Bob Aram, you'd say, 'There was nothing he could do.' But you blame me, black devil motherfucker. Let me tell you something: Tyson will be heavyweight champ again. And this time, you'll pay twice as much to see it. Why? Because y'all part of the same hypocrisy.

• Don King : It's entertainment, baby! You love my black ass! 'Cause I'm exciting!

• Don King : Y'know who's a motherfucker? The devil's a motherfucker.

• Don King : I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum.

• Don King : If you didn't have Don King, you'd have to invent him.

• Don King : If respect is not given freely it must be exacted.

• Don King : There are only two things you can do in prison; that's either get better or get worse.