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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!

Bernard Hopkins

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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Heart Motivation Strong
If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Knows Own Value Worth
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
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Challenges Effort Ordinary
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Out People Unpredictable Things Work
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Killing Shapes Years
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 HOPKINS

Battle Bullets Media
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Children Country Mean
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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Fighting People Real
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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Beats Boys White
Anybody who thinks I’m taking this fight for a paycheck doesn’t know me. My whole life I’ve been achieving the impossible.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighting Motivation Thinking
I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation Two Years
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Hurt Motivation Talking
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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Gone Looks Out Work
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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Bernard Different Hopkins Thinking
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 HOPKINS

Fighter Motivation Winning
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation Slavery Smart
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighting Workout Years
This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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Boxing Fighting Out Work
If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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Fighter Judging Motivation
The 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.
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Behinds Knows Out Work
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 HOPKINS

Light Men Motivation
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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Motivation Philadelphia Running
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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Different Philosophy Teacher
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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Fear Guy Nothing Prison Respect
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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Clouds Desire Silence
I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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Bananas Clean Nuts
There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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Boxing Chance Fighting

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