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I 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.

Bernard Hopkins

This is a great position to be in. I don’t really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I’ve been in for many years.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Believe Luxury Years
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Out People Work
The streets was basically my parents.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighter Motivation Parent
The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Athlete Motivation Smart
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Heart Motivation Strong
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 HOPKINS

Clouds Desire Silence
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighting People Real
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Care Day Motivation Next
The NBA has a voice that’s why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that’s why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that’s individually represented the individual people – Managers, Promoters and Boxers.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Lockout Motivation Sports
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Different Philosophy Teacher
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation Steps Style
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 HOPKINS

Guy Motivation Stronger
It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Challenges Effort Ordinary
There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Chance Fighting
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Favor Motivation People
The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Division Heavyweights Sports

I 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.

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