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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.

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
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
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Fighting Mma Motivation
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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Gone Looks Out Work
I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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Bananas Clean Nuts
I’m not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.
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Attention Give Up Years
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 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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Challenges Made Out Work
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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Division Heavyweights Sports
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 function better when my back is to the wall.
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Fighter Motivation Wall
You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.
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Being Different Mean Motivation
You’ve got to be willing to look at a guy’s face and say I will kill you if I have to. You’ve got to be willing to look in his face and say that I will stab you, I will hurt you and you can’t talk the game, you’ve got to really act and do the game.
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Hurt Motivation Talking
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.
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Favor Motivation People
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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Knows Own Value Worth
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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Clouds Desire Silence
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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Out People Unpredictable Things Work

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