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.
BERNARD HOPKINSI 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.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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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.
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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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I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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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.
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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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If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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I am going in there to win this fight. I don’t think people are taking me seriously. I’m gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.
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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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This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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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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