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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

This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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Boxing Fighting Out 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.
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Killing Shapes Years
Understand that I’m at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I’m a better fighter and a better athlete at 40½ years old, but I’m at my best when I know I’ve got to beat the system again.
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Athlete Motivation Years
This is a great position to be in. I don’t really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I’ve been in for many years.
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Believe Luxury Years
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.
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Fighter Motivation Way
Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they’re gone. Look at me at 50, I’m going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.
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Gone Looks Out Work
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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Fighting Mma Motivation
I function better when my back is to the wall.
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Fighter Motivation Wall
The media here know that there’s the possibility that I can pull this off. I’m confident. Confidence comes with work. When you prepare yourself and you know you’re going into combat with all of your bullets, you have the confidence to go into battle.
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Battle Bullets Media
I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
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Fighter Guy Motivation
I wouldn’t wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn’t be a good outcome for both.
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Fighting Motivation Outcomes
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
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Challenges Effort Ordinary
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.
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Boxing Lockout Motivation Sports
There are so many things I’ve done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It’s going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.
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Boxing Out People Work
I didn’t need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I’ve always fought the best and I’ve always wanted to prove myself to the best.
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Fighting Workout Years
I really didn’t care. I’d do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.
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Care Day Motivation Next
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.
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Motivation Steps Style
I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.
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Beats Boys White
When you have somebody that’s smart and you’re not so smart, to me that’s modern day slavery because you’re being dictated to.
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Motivation Slavery Smart
The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I’m real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.
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Fighting People Real
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.
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Guy Motivation Stronger
I have the philosophy that I’m different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he’s worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience.
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Different Philosophy Teacher
The streets was basically my parents.
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Fighter Motivation Parent
I like Sergio Martinez. I think he’s strong, he’s gritty, he’s got plenty of heart, he’s not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.
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Heart Motivation Strong
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.
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Motivation People
I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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Bananas Clean Nuts
Anybody who thinks I’m taking this fight for a paycheck doesn’t know me. My whole life I’ve been achieving the impossible.
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Fighting Motivation Thinking

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

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