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Bernard Hopkins

Bernard Humphrey Hopkins Jr. (born January 15, 1965) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2016. He is one of the most successful boxers of the past three decades, having held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the undisputed middleweight title from 2004 to 2005, and the lineal light heavyweight title from 2011 to 2012.

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The streets was basically my parents.

Motivation, Parent, Fighter, Basically, Streets, Parents

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

Care, Life, Low, Motivation, Next Day, Walk

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

Fighting, Boxing, Work Out, Deeper, Fight

The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.

Real, Fighting, People, Fight, Attached

Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it's not about the W. . . It's everything about the W with me!

Everything, Fighter, Hear, Motivation, Said, Winning

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

Boxing, Dawson, Fight, Fighting, Mma, Motivation

You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.

Degree, Fighting, Hard, Struggle, Thinking

It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.

Strong, Motivation, Moving, Moves, Time

This is a great position to be in. I don't really believe there is any fighter, in any decade that can be in my position of luxury that I've been in for many years.

Believe, Fighter, Luxury, Years

I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

Child, Children, Country, Mean, Obesity, Taking

Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.

Running, Motivation, Philadelphia, Come, Different, Gandhi

I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.

Attention, Eat, Giving Up, Plan, Years

You've got to be willing to look at a guy's face and say I will kill you if I have to. You've got to be willing to look in his face and say that I will stab you, I will hurt you and you can't talk the game, you've got to really act and do the game. Prison is a thing where talking gets you killed. What gets you respect is you do. The guy that you fear is a guy that says nothing.

Hurt, Motivation, Prison, Respect, Stab, Talking

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

Boxing, Chance, Fighting, See

I'm 100 percent clean. I'm doing this off of nuts and bananas.

Bananas, Clean, Nuts, Percent

I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

Allen, Grand, Like, Motivation, Steps, Style

I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

Motivation, Guy, Fighter, Guys, Angry, Making

The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.

Athlete, Athletes, Become, Boxers, Motivation, Smart

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

Beat, Beats, Boy, Boys, Let, White

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

Bernard, Bernard Hopkins, Capable, Different, See, Thinking

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