Bernard Hopkins Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“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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“It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.”
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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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“I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant.”
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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 was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.”
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“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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“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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“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'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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“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.”
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“Early on in my career I had the kind of anxious where you couldn't sleep at night. That anxiousness is like a virus we all have in us. Some you can deal with but some will wipe you out.”
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“The 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.”
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“The only thing I can do is be right about what I say. Because I know I'm being watched. I understand what I'm facing. All I can do is put the work behind it.”
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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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“This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.”
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“I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.”
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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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“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'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.”
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“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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