Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I have already bent time to my will.
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There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.
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I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
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I've had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is.
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Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'
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If I go to a restaurant, which I do often, I know what I want, and it's not on the menu half the time. Half the time, they have to adjust the menu or what they got in the back, and they'll make it for me.
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I am a great champion.
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I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
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If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.
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Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.
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Most of my fights are intelligent.
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Age is not an enemy to me.
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The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.
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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.
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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
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I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
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They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.
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UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.
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Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.
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I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.
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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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One thing I want people to know before I leave this game is I gave it my all.
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I understand and I don't understand human beings.