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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.

Bernard Hopkins

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
The 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.
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Boxing Lockout Motivation Sports
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
The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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Athlete Motivation Smart
I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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Fighting Men Old Man
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
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
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
This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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Boxing Fighting Out Work
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 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
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
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 still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
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Motivation Two Years
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 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
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
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
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
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
There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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Boxing Chance Fighting
The streets was basically my parents.
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Fighter Motivation Parent
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
The 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.
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Division Heavyweights Sports
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
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
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

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