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I was made to be where I’m at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.

Bernard Hopkins

There’s no great person that lived that didn’t go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighter Motivation Way
If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighter Judging Motivation
The NBA has a voice that’s why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that’s why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that’s individually represented the individual people – Managers, Promoters and Boxers.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Lockout Motivation Sports
Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he’s gonna be back bigger and stronger.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Guy Motivation Stronger
I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from – the penitentiary.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation People
Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation Philadelphia Running
I was made to be where I’m at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Challenges Made Out Work
I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Bananas Clean Nuts
You’re not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I’m too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Bernard Different Hopkins Thinking
I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighting Men Old Man
I’m lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that’s what counts. That’s why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Light Men Motivation
I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Careers Out Want Work
I don’t know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren’t in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Killing Shapes Years
I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighter Guy Motivation
I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation Steps Style
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Challenges Effort Ordinary

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