Bernard Hopkins on division
Bernard Hopkins46 quotes“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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The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins I was made to be where I’m at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins I function better when my back is to the wall.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins 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.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins 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.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins 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.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins 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.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it’s not what happened, but what happens next.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins 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 HopkinsBernard Hopkins I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins 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.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins 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.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
Bernard HopkinsBernard Hopkins 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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Brennan ManningBrennan Manning Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
Golda MeirGolda Meir O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord’s people were divided.
Dwight L. MoodyDwight L. Moody The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides – only the heart truly binds.
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