The streets was basically my parents.
BERNARD HOPKINSI 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.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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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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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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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This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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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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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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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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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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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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I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
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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 function better when my back is to the wall.
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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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There are so many things I’ve done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It’s going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.
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