Bernard Hopkins Quotes
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I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
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I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.
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The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.
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I am a great champion.
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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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There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.
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If I go to a restaurant, which I do often, I know what I want, and it's not on the menu half the time. Half the time, they have to adjust the menu or what they got in the back, and they'll make it for me.
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I looked up to Marvin Hagler, Ali.
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UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.
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Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
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Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.
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I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
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The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.
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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 had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is.
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Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'
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I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.
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I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
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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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If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.
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I'm the guy still driving a Nissan.
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I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.
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I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
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I would love to play with the Flyers. I got the two front teeth missing, so I can look the part. I'm ready cosmetically. I could fit right in.