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I function better when my back is to the wall.

Bernard Hopkins

There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Chance Fighting
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 always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Careers Out Want Work
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
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 HOPKINS

Gone Looks Out Work
If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighter Judging Motivation
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
This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Fighting Out Work
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Athlete Motivation Years
I am going in there to win this fight. I don’t think people are taking me seriously. I’m gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighting Motivation Winning
I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
BERNARD HOPKINS

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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Favor Motivation People
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

Fighter Motivation Next
There are so many things I’ve done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It’s going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Out People Work
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
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 HOPKINS

Motivation Philadelphia Running

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