I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.
BERNARD HOPKINSThe 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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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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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 controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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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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The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
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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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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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I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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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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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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