Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it’s not about the W…It’s everything about the W with me!
BERNARD HOPKINSThere’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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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I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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Prison is a thing where talking gets you killed. What gets you respect is you do. The guy that you fear is a guy that says nothing.
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I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
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I function better when my back is to the wall.
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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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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 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 controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.
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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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The streets was basically my parents.
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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 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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If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
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I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I’m a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.
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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
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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.
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I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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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.
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The only thing I can do is be right about what I say. Because I know I’m being watched. I understand what I’m facing. All I can do is put the work behind it.
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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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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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There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
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