Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.
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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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Protect yourself at all times. It's what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I'm not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.
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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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I love fighting big guys because I'm fast. I'm not a big, light heavyweight. I can move. I can get inside on them. I'm inside, I'm wrestling with them, and they're just wrestling, but all the time, I'm chopping; I'm slapping.
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I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with 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'm the guy still driving a Nissan.
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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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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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Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.
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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
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Age is not an enemy to me.
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Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.
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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 looked up to Marvin Hagler, Ali.
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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 was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.
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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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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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Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
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Most of my fights are intelligent.
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I understand and I don't understand human beings.
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Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.