Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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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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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'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 am a great champion.
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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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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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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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There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.
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The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.
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I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
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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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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 am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
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That materialistic life, that's not my god.
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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 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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Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
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I understand and I don't understand human beings.
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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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Most of my fights are intelligent.