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.
BERNARD HOPKINSI’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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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I wouldn’t wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn’t be a good outcome for both.
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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.
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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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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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The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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I 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.
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I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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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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The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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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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Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he’s gonna be back bigger and stronger.
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I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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