Bernard Hopkins Quotes

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Bernard Hopkins

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 15, 1965

If you notice, in every fight, I always have something to get into their head.

Bernard Hopkins

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.

Bernard Hopkins

I'm a guy that likes to work in the spa and get on the elliptical.

Bernard Hopkins

I like to do things that are noncombat- or boxing-related. So I jump rope a lot, and then I run a lot.

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Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

Bernard Hopkins

If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live.

Bernard Hopkins

Oscar De La Hoya is unique. Even Ray Leonard didn't have the star power Oscar has.

Bernard Hopkins

I don't think I can get Jack Nicholson to come out and watch me fight.

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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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Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins is an event where actors and actresses will come out, and I give all credit to Oscar for that.

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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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Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.

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I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.

Bernard Hopkins

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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Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'

Bernard Hopkins

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.

Bernard Hopkins

I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.

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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.

Bernard Hopkins

There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.

Bernard Hopkins

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

Bernard Hopkins