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 HOPKINSThe 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.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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.
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I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
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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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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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I function better when my back is to the wall.
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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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There’s always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
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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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I like Sergio Martinez. I think he’s strong, he’s gritty, he’s got plenty of heart, he’s not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.
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This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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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 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.
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If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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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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