Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.
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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 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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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'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 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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I am a great champion.
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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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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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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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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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I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
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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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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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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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Age is not an enemy to me.
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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 understand and I don't understand human beings.
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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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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.