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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.

Bernard Hopkins

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Beats Boys White
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 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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Fighter Motivation Next
I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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Fighting Men Old Man
The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.
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Favor Motivation People
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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Believe Luxury Years
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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Out People Unpredictable Things Work
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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Challenges Made Out Work
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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Fighting Motivation Thinking
I wouldn’t wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn’t be a good outcome for both.
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Fighting Motivation Outcomes
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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Athlete Motivation Years
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
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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Attention Give Up Years
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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Light Men Motivation
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 still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
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Motivation Two Years
This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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Boxing Fighting Out Work
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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Fighter Motivation Winning
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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Care Day Motivation Next
You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.
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Being Different Mean Motivation
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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Hurt Motivation Talking
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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Fighter Motivation Way
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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Fighting Mma Motivation
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
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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Motivation Slavery Smart
I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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Bananas Clean Nuts
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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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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