Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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'm a health-awareness guy, and all of that includes how I eat, how much I rest, and how I keep my skin good. Any kind of maintenance that I would do on a car, I do on myself.
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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 am a great champion.
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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 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 looked up to Marvin Hagler, Ali.
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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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Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.
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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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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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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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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'm the guy still driving a Nissan.
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Any UFC fighter, and any fighter going into the boxing ring and can do what they do in the UFC, nine out of 10 won't be victorious and vice-versa, with a boxer coming from - even myself - coming over to that field will be a fish trying to be in a jungle and survive. It's not going to happen.
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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
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The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.
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I would love to play with the Flyers. I got the two front teeth missing, so I can look the part. I'm ready cosmetically. I could fit right in.
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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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You do a deal - business deal, real estate deal, stock deal - protect yourself at all times. I got that from boxing. That's from A to Z: that covers everything in life. And it started when I heard it in the ring. They don't say that in basketball or football or any other sport that I know of but boxing.
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I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
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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.