Top 97 Promoters Quotes & Sayings

Promoters need you. You don't need them... The boxer has the leverage, and a lot of boxers don't know that.

There's only been three giant promoters in our lifetime. There's Michael Todd, P.T. Barnum, and yours truly.

I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

Boxing is so easy for me, sadly. I don't mean to be cocky. The promoters don't like that I walk through other girls but it's not my fault that I'm so good.

Wherever technology's going, we're cool with it. We're definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.

Boxing always was corrupt and always will be corrupt. The three world champion's belts really are absurd. One single association would make this business more reputable. Just as powerful as the promoters, is the media. The cable networks control the cash flow. You can?t ignore the influence the media and the promoters have on the sport. They have a financial objective - high ratings, selling pay-per-views and selling out arenas. Because of the system, the public may not be seeing the best the sport has to offer, but what sells.

Based on paper, because of my size, a lot of promoters and hole-in-the-wall indies will book me against the local big guy.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

I have learned that promoters can love you, hate you, then love you again.

Lots of people aren't self-promoters. You've just never heard of them.

And I'd spent 20 years in bars and nightclubs, dealing with promoters and getting ripped off and just everything that comes with all that stuff - paying your dues, I guess.

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.

Promoters do bigger numbers when Ken Shamrock's name is on the card.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

I don't want it to be so complicated - promoters, a business plan, none of that.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I've never knocked back an opponent in my life.

There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden.

I'm so confusing to wrestling promoters, and I'm used to that, but because I stayed in ECW and learned how to express myself the way, ah, that I could connect with my fans, it made my strong Rob Van Dam character uncompromising... and I owe that to ECW.

The biggest cost of my business is competition - promoters bidding against each other to get a tour.

We believe that the Internet is the live concert promoters best friend although it might have crippled the record label business.

Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm.

If promoters figure out a way to keep the fighters happy then those fighters will tell other fighters and that promotion will win.

Promoters don't book you 'cause they like you; they do it 'cause there's good business to be done.

I just work hard and do what I've got to do and let my promoters and matchmakers handle that part. I basically tell them to get the guy that has the best record that wants to fight.

It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.

I think there's a lack of respect for me out there, from the promoters, boxing people. It's something I've faced ever since I put on gloves. I don't understand it. I know my father doesn't.

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.

Promoters saw the potential in me and the value in me. It was because of companies like Evolve, PWG, Progress, and Beyond Wrestling. Those are the big ones that gave me a push and made my name worth something on the indies.

We like to joke that India has sick companies but rich promoters. Yet, even after the bad loans and non-payment of dues have turned at least three banks sick, there is no public demand for investigation, accountability and punishment.

Promoters know the business.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.

I always love meeting other promoters.

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.

I worked for promoters that I couldn't stand and they couldn't stand me. But they knew if they put my name out there, I would sell out for them.

I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.

But whether or not I deserved being called 'King of the Indies,' I've wrestled in many promotions across the US because promoters put a lot of credence in that title.

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right when I called somebody a dummy or a yo-yo. Then they realized I was different.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Television is not the exclusive target of promoters. Is Superman really worthy of a Newsweek cover?

It depends on various things like if the promoters want to have a break so they can sell more T-shirts and booze, then they ask if we can do an interval. I personally prefer not to do that. Once you get onstage, I like to stay there.

I like Scott Coker a lot. He built Strikeforce, turned it into what it was and he has a great reputation with fighters and other promoters.

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.