Top 55 Promoter Quotes

For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.

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.

In early days of Live Nation, we really believed it was important to be a direct-to-consumer business, which the labels aren’t and no promoter was at the time. By merging with Ticketmaster, we could we give the artist a direct relationship with the fan.

It’s two sides to everybody. I’m a manager – I’m a promoter – and I’m a fighter, so it is two sides to me. That’s a balance there.

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.

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.

As a martial arts promoter and as a fan of martial arts, you go, ‘What would happen if this guy fought this guy?’

I heard there was a debate about fighting teammates, and if a fight should happen because the fans or promoter wants it, I will fight a teammate, but family is ridiculous.

At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during ‘Meat Is Murder.’

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.’

It’s your career. Why should you let someone else be in control of what you do? You’re the one taking all the risk. The promoter is not the one getting in the ring, the manager is not the one getting in the ring, the trainer doesn’t even get in the ring.

As a wrestling promoter, I believe that it has to be a unique, special situation. Intergender matches should be treated on a case by case basis. If they become the norm, then I don’t think it is interesting.

My team members are Hector Soto, who is a boxing promoter and Vice-president of Miguel Cotto Promotions. He runs all my business. He was the person that my father left in charge of it all. Bryan Perez is my right-hand man.

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.

My grandmother was a promoter. My father was a promoter.

I started off in sports centers with no promoter, no TV, no backing, just me, my bag and Oliver Harrison, having to sell tickets.

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.

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.

But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.

I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

I’ve done everything. I’ve been ring crew, I’ve been driver for a blind promoter, I’ve been a valet, I’ve been a referee, I’ve been a ring announcer, I’ve been a corporate officer, play-by-play man, blah, blah, blah. No one has been on my journey.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we’ll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

If the racing series does not exist for a year, then it disappears in its entirety. Teams that have been operating very close to the limit just wouldn’t survive. They rely on racing to generate income and to fulfill their obligations to the promoter.

When I actually started in NXT – or FCW back then – when I did independent wrestling shows, I would be lucky if the promoter would be able to find a girl for me to wrestle.

You can’t fight like a machine, like you are worried about what the promoter is going to think.

If the fighter doesn’t want to fight, you’re not gonna want him to fight. If the fighter doesn’t want to fight, the promoter doesn’t make him fight. And if he wants to retire, then it’s time to walk away.

My family has been in the wrestling business for over 70 years. I’m a third-generation wrestling promoter, and years ago, when I fist started, there was a wrestling audience in the United States in 22 regions.

You don’t hear a film director saying ‘Money mustn’t go out of the industry’ to actors. You don’t hear a concert promoter saying ‘We must make sure that money doesn’t go out of our industry’ to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, ‘Never mind the players, let’s get on with the game.’

Every fighter has a different agenda. Every promoter has a different agenda for their fighter. Every manager has a different agenda. So things change all the time.

I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

I’ve played Frankie Cosmos shows where the promoter or whoever sees that I’m the lead singer, and then they go up to David, the bassist, and are like, ‘So, do we pay you?’ And he’s like, ‘No, you pay her; she’s the boss.’ Those are moments where I’m just like, ‘I’m clearly in charge.’

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.

If I’m the promoter and I’ve got a fighter named ‘Rampage’ who likes to slam people and knock them out, the last thing I would do is put him in a fight with someone who’s good at holding people down.

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.

I think Conor McGregor is a promoter, and I’m not here to promote any of his fights. If he were here in WWE, that would be a different story, but until that happens, I don’t feel like I need to address it.

When I first went to Georgia Championship Wrestling, the promoter at the time Jim Barnett brought in Robert Fuller, who later became Colonel Rob Parker in WCW, as the booker. Everybody has their own style and way of doing things, and I was just not impressed with Robert Fuller. As a booker. As a talent he was fine.

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.

When I had my first gig, I was 18 in January in 2007. My first gig that I got paid, I was playing for 10 people in a 250 people capacity venue. The promoter wanted to book me because he liked my music. I played a couple of songs that made people dance. To me, that rush has always stayed the same.

I was offered the Kovalev fight in 2018 but my manager and promoter agreed it wasn’t the right time for me to be challenging for a world title then. I needed a few more tuneup fights, learning fights, and I’m fine with that.

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

These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.

My career is one of people involvement. I’m a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I’m in it to win, I cant give in, I can’t give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.

It’s not OK for somebody to push a fighter into a corner and strong-arm him to accept whatever the promoter wants.

I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he’ll go, ‘OK, how about Armenia?’

Any promoter who wants to put me on their card, I’m willing to fight.

Mr. McMahon was the first promoter in the world give me a break at World Championship. I cannot double-cross that company.

There’s always some promoter having an ’80s night, saying, We’ll supply the band. All you can drink.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

In 1985, I went to work for MTM Records, Mary Tyler Moore’s Nashville record label, and stayed three years. After that, I spent two years as an independent promoter, then worked for MCA Nashville Records, DreamWorks Nashville, and Universal Music Nashville.