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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.

Bernard Hopkins

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

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

Athlete Motivation Smart
I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it’s not what happened, but what happens next.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighter Motivation Next
You’re not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I’m too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Bernard Different Hopkins Thinking
Prison is a thing where talking gets you killed. What gets you respect is you do. The guy that you fear is a guy that says nothing.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fear Guy Nothing Prison Respect
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation Philadelphia Running
I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Careers Out Want Work
This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Fighting Out Work
I don’t know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren’t in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Killing Shapes Years
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
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
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
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 HOPKINS

Fighting Motivation Thinking
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.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Out People Unpredictable Things Work
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

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