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.
BERNARD HOPKINSThe 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.
BERNARD HOPKINSThere’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.
BERNARD HOPKINSThe 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.
BERNARD HOPKINSTavoris 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 HOPKINSI was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from – the penitentiary.
BERNARD HOPKINSUnderstand 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.
BERNARD HOPKINSI am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
BERNARD HOPKINSYou’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 HOPKINSI got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it’s not what happened, but what happens next.
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.
BERNARD HOPKINSThe controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
BERNARD HOPKINSI 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 HOPKINSI 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 HOPKINSIf you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
BERNARD HOPKINSThis fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
BERNARD HOPKINSI 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.
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