Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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 feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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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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Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.
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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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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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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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Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
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The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.
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I am a great champion.
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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That materialistic life, that's not my god.
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I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
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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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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
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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 have already bent time to my will.
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Age is not an enemy to me.
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Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.
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Most of my fights are intelligent.
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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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There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.