Quote

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.

Bernard Hopkins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bernard Hopkins
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 15
Boxer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
People
Fighting
Plan
Woke
Wanted
Mass
Opponent
Might
Plans
Garbage
Firsts
Percent
Attached
First
Fight
Ninety
Real
Knew
Masses
Knockout
Something
Heard
Opponents
Knockouts
Time
Word
Destroy
Keen

More quotes by Bernard Hopkins

Image
You’re hated by some, loved by others, but that’s what’s great about being different. If everybody loved you, that means you’re not doing the right thing most of the time.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
The only thing I can do is be right about what I say. Because I know I'm being watched. I understand what I'm facing. All I can do is put the work behind it.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
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 Hopkins
Image
Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
I don't know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren't in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
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.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
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.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
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.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
The streets was basically my parents.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
Tavoris Cloud might actually be hungrier than me. How often do you hear a fighter say that his opponent is hungrier than he is? I don't need hunger. I'm motivated by my desire to prove that I'm different and that I can still silence the critics.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
I function better when my back is to the wall.
Bernard Hopkins
Image
I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant.
Bernard Hopkins