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If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.

Bernard Hopkins

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
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

Athlete Motivation Years
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
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 was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from – the penitentiary.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Motivation People
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
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
There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Boxing Chance Fighting
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
I’ve got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Fighter Guy Motivation
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 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

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

Motivation Two Years
I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I’m a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Children Country Mean
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’m lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that’s what counts. That’s why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.
BERNARD HOPKINS

Light Men Motivation

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