Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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 feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
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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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The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.
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I have already bent time to my will.
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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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Any UFC fighter, and any fighter going into the boxing ring and can do what they do in the UFC, nine out of 10 won't be victorious and vice-versa, with a boxer coming from - even myself - coming over to that field will be a fish trying to be in a jungle and survive. It's not going to happen.
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If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not?
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A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.
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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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That materialistic life, that's not my god.
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Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.
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The worst damage a person - a fighter or even a person that's just everyday living - is shorten your life by your lifestyle.
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It's the inner that produces the outer.
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I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.
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I want to be the spokesman for the 40-and-older crowd, inspiring people to believe that no matter their age, they can be healthy and save their lives.
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I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly.
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When I left the penitentiary, I learned to stay away from the Philly cheesesteaks, the pizza, the junk that clogs your arteries and kills you.
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You look at De La Hoya, and you think that he is an actor or a singer. I'd like to rearrange a couple of things on his face so the pretty boy becomes just another boxer.
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I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.
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I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.
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I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.