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My grandmother was a promoter. My father was a promoter.
If fans are willing to pay to see you fight, the promoter is happy.
I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
Any promoter who wants to put me on their card, I'm willing to fight.
A good promoter is one that treats you with respect and as a human being.
The more successful a promoter becomes, the more ruthless they've got to be.
I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.
I started as a rave promoter when I was 17 years old; then I started DJing at 19.
I started in 1989. I was the booker, the promoter, the headliner. I wore all the hats.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
I'm not looking to be an opponent and have a promoter match me with their up-and-coming star.
You can't fight like a machine, like you are worried about what the promoter is going to think.
PAL continues to be the country's leading airline and significant promoter of Philippine tourism.
For 10 years, I was my own label, my own promoter, my own PR. We borrowed money to print our CDs.
There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.
I always encourage my promoter to see if we can go someplace new. And he'll go, 'OK, how about Armenia?'
My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.
I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.
As a martial arts promoter and as a fan of martial arts, you go, 'What would happen if this guy fought this guy?'
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 very fortunate. I've looked after my money and I'm happy with where my career is at as a trainer and a promoter.
But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.
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.
Mr. McMahon was the first promoter in the world give me a break at World Championship. I cannot double-cross that company.
The state has an offensive and defensive role to play as promoter of industrial policies, as regulator and as shareholder.
The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter.
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 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 started off in sports centers with no promoter, no TV, no backing, just me, my bag and Oliver Harrison, having to sell tickets.
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.
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.
When I become world champion, what do I need? I need opponents, I need someone to pick a venue, negotiate a date, and I need a promoter.
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.
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.
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.
As a promoter, of course, you'd really want the people who pay for the tickets to come into your venue to really be even more connected with the band.
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.
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.
What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.
I came in touch with music at an early age. My father was a show band promoter, who took me along as a little nipper of five and put me up on the stage with the musicians to sing.
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.
Strong focus on customer experience coupled with strategic investments in proprietary technology has helped us maintain a high net promoter score while empowering our hotel partners.
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.