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.
BERNARD HOPKINSIf you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I function better when my back is to the wall.
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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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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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This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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Prison is a thing where talking gets you killed. What gets you respect is you do. The guy that you fear is a guy that says nothing.
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I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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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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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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The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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You’ve got to be willing to look at a guy’s face and say I will kill you if I have to. You’ve got to be willing to look in his face and say that I will stab you, I will hurt you and you can’t talk the game, you’ve got to really act and do the game.
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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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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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If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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I really didn’t care. I’d do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.
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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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