Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I have already bent time to my will.
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To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking.
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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'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 respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
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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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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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There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.
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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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Age is not an enemy to me.
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I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
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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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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 am a great champion.
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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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When guys say at the press conference, 'I'm not scared' - now, for a guy to tell me he's not scared of me means that you are scared.
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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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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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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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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 really look toward the future. I only look at the present.