Bernard Hopkins Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Fighting, Men, Old Man

  "Calzaghe nicks round one". BBC Sport, February 08, 2008.

• 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

  Real, Fighting, People

• I didn't need to take any fight for the last 10 years. But I've always fought the best and I've always wanted to prove myself to the best.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Fighting, Years, Work Out

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

  Bernard Hopkins

  Fighting, Boxing, Work Out

• I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Fighting, Winning

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

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Fighting, Mma

• 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

  Motivation, Fighting, Thinking

• I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Fighting, Outcomes

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

  Bernard Hopkins

  Fighting, Boxing, Chance

• 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.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

• 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

  Motivation, Party, Fighting

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