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 HOPKINSThere’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it’s not what happened, but what happens next.
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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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I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
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There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to be willing to look at a guy’s face and say I will kill you if I have to. You’ve got to be willing to look in his face and say that I will stab you, I will hurt you and you can’t talk the game, you’ve got to really act and do the game.
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Tavoris Cloud might actually be hungrier than me. How often do you hear a fighter say that his opponent is hungrier than he is? I don’t need hunger. I’m motivated by my desire to prove that I’m different and that I can still silence the critics.
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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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You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.
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Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it’s not about the W…It’s everything about the W with me!
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This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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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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