Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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 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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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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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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I am a great champion.
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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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We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.
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Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.
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I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
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Most of my fights are intelligent.
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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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Age is not an enemy to 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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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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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
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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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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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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 don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.