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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 Hopkins

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.
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Boxing Out People Work
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
I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from – the penitentiary.
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Motivation People
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 got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
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Fighter Guy Motivation
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.
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Fighting Motivation Winning
I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
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Motivation Two Years
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
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 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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Children Country Mean
I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.
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Careers Out Want Work
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
If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
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Knows Own Value Worth
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
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.
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Battle Bullets Media
The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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Athlete Motivation Smart

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