But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
In a Ponzi scheme, a promoter pays back his initial investors with money he has raised from new investors. Eventually, the promoter can no longer find enough new investors to pay off the people who have already put up money, and the scheme collapses.
There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.
I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything.
We used to work with a promoter in Italy who used to book for shows with nine hour drives in between, so we got a new promoter.
I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
Artur Sowinksi is a fight that I want to put right for a long time - that win was stolen from me. His friend was the promoter, a Polish promoter at the time and he overturned it, but that's a win in my mind - it was a win that was stolen from me.
I started off in sports centers with no promoter, no TV, no backing, just me, my bag and Oliver Harrison, having to sell tickets.
I don't consider myself a massive self-promoter, and I don't feel I've ever had to behave in a way that didn't come natural to me in order to progress.
It's not OK for somebody to push a fighter into a corner and strong-arm him to accept whatever the promoter wants.
I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee.
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.
Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.
A good promoter is one that treats you with respect and as a human being.
Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.
Might sound crazy but I just left the private plane, promoter paid 100 k and I ain't even stay the whole day.
I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.
There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.
Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
I'm a fighter. I'm not a promoter and I'm not a manager so I leave that up to my manager and my promoter and I just fight.
I need to be a promoter, man. I need to start a promotion. If I was a promoter, man, I would be the best matchmaker. I would be putting on the most exciting fights.
A promoter needs to be in the e-commerce ticketing business. In a fundamental sense the promoter's job is to buy a show and go and market and sell the tickets.
I talk to my guys and I tell them, 'You have to fight in a way that you don't give the promoter a choice but to bring you back.'
I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere - no promoter is willing to pay for my crates of vinyl to fly with me, so I have a team of people to digitise it all.
I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.
I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
I'm very fortunate. I've looked after my money and I'm happy with where my career is at as a trainer and a promoter.
Any promoter who wants to put me on their card, I'm willing to fight.
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was an active promoter of increased resource extraction in Latin America, pushing both fracking and the privatization of petroleum production.
There's always a concern when you play the week before a major. That's not the easiest time for a scheduler or a promoter, I would think.
My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.
I'm really not a trend promoter because I feel that people push trends on people they shouldn't.
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.
The more successful a promoter becomes, the more ruthless they've got to be.
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.
If you go out and make a show and put your heart on the line every time, the people will respond to that and the promoter won't be able to say anything.
My grandmother was a promoter. My father was a promoter.
The McMahons are generational promoters, Vince's grandfather was a promoter way back in the day, and obviously, his father was a very, very famous promoter.
I think every promoter's job is to pump their athletes up. Like, you see, Dana White did it all the time with branding people: all of a sudden, they're the best thing since sliced bread, just because that's the promoter's job.
PAL continues to be the country's leading airline and significant promoter of Philippine tourism.
Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, "When is Al coming back?"
I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.
It depends on my promoter Bob Arum.
I don't want to be in a stable of guys that have to fight for the spotlight. I want to be with a promoter who is solely focused on me.
The promoter of an event can't take sides. He can't give better conditions to one fighter over the other. Everyone has to be treated with quality.
I'm a promoter of masturbation. Don't sleep around...learn yourself first! Guys do it, but girls don't. They should.
I'm not looking to be an opponent and have a promoter match me with their up-and-coming star.
I started as a rave promoter when I was 17 years old; then I started DJing at 19.
All those fights I've done since 1999, I was either the promoter or co-promoter.
DC will always talk. I just found out he just talks. I kind of figured it out. He talks just to hear himself talk. I know he wants to be that guy that's a big time promoter and all this other stuff, but I think he's his own biggest cheerleader and his worst promoter for sure.
The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
If fans are willing to pay to see you fight, the promoter is happy.
You can't fight like a machine, like you are worried about what the promoter is going to think.
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