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Understand that I’m at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I’m a better fighter and a better athlete at 40½ years old, but I’m at my best when I know I’ve got to beat the system again.

Bernard Hopkins

If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Knows Own Value Worth
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
The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
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Athlete Motivation Smart
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 would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.
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Beats Boys White
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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Boxing Out People Work
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’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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighter Motivation Way
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
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation Slavery Smart
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
I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation Two Years
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Behinds Knows Out Work
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighting Mma Motivation
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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Fighting Motivation Winning

Understand that I’m at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I’m a better fighter and a better athlete at 40½ years old, but I’m at my best when I know I’ve got to beat the system again.

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