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I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

Bernard Hopkins

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
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 don’t know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren’t in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.
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Killing Shapes Years
I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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Fighting Men Old Man
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
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
I have the philosophy that I’m different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he’s worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience.
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Different Philosophy Teacher
I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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Bananas Clean Nuts
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
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
The streets was basically my parents.
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Fighter Motivation Parent
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.
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Fighting Workout 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
I 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.
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Heart Motivation Strong
There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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Boxing Chance Fighting
If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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Fighter Judging Motivation

I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

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