I’m 100 percent clean. I’m doing this off of nuts and bananas.
BERNARD HOPKINSWhen you have somebody that’s smart and you’re not so smart, to me that’s modern day slavery because you’re being dictated to.
More Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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This fight isn’t about boxing, it’s something deeper than that.
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Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it’s not about the W…It’s everything about the W with me!
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I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I’m a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.
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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 you don’t know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it’ll be less than you’re worth.
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I was made to be where I’m at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.
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I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it’s not what happened, but what happens next.
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I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
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I like Sergio Martinez. I think he’s strong, he’s gritty, he’s got plenty of heart, he’s not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.
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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.
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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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