Anybody who thinks I’m taking this fight for a paycheck doesn’t know me. My whole life I’ve been achieving the impossible.
BERNARD HOPKINSThe 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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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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The streets was basically my parents.
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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’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
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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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The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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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’m lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that’s what counts. That’s why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.
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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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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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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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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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I wouldn’t wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn’t be a good outcome for both.
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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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