The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
BERNARD HOPKINSBoxers 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.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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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Anybody who thinks I’m taking this fight for a paycheck doesn’t know me. My whole life I’ve been achieving the impossible.
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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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There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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I function better when my back is to the wall.
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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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If you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
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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’ve done so many unpredictable things and so profoundly. Even the people who want to go against me, are afraid to go against me. They’ve been wrong so many times. A lot of them are just being mum right now. They must feel I can still do things.
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