There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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.
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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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The streets was basically my parents.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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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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If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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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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I’m not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve done so many unpredictable things and so profoundly. Even the people who want to go against me, are afraid to go against me. They’ve been wrong so many times. A lot of them are just being mum right now. They must feel I can still do things.
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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 middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.
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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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The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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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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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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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
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