I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
BERNARD HOPKINSAnybody who thinks I’m taking this fight for a paycheck doesn’t know me. My whole life I’ve been achieving the impossible.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I function better when my back is to the wall.
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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.
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I’m lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that’s what counts. That’s why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.
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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.
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The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.
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I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
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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.
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If I’m in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
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There are so many things I’ve done that the world of boxing has witnessed. It’s going to be difficult for the boxing people to pick one of my performances as the best.
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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.
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I wouldn’t wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn’t be a good outcome for both.
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I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.
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