American - Athlete | January 15, 1965 -
Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
Bernard Hopkins
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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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Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.
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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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I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.
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My whole career, I got a lot of credit for not taking punches.
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Most of my fights are intelligent.
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Protect yourself at all times. It's what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I'm not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.
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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 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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They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.
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I'm the guy still driving a Nissan.
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