Love him or hate?
You cannot help but notice him.
Many, I do mean many, years ago when I first saw him on TV, I laughed.
I've long since stopped laughing and started respecting.
I have come to realize that Boxing promoter Don King is in many ways the embodiment of the American Spirit. His hair points upward; his optimistic smile is an encouragement for today and tomorrow; and his entrepreneurial drive is a true, large chip off the founding capitalistic rock.
His ubiquitous sound bite speaks volumes about our great nation's exceptionalism: "ONLY IN AMERICA!"
Don King's quote of Teddy Roosevelt summarizes what he believes about his career and life:
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails at least he fails while daring greatly, so that this place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt
AMEN!
---Glenn <><
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