If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
BERNARD HOPKINSThe 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.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The streets was basically my parents.
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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’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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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 like Sergio Martinez. I think he’s strong, he’s gritty, he’s got plenty of heart, he’s not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.
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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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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 controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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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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