Top 154 Quotes & Sayings by Bernard Hopkins - Page 2

If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live.

I don't think I can get Jack Nicholson to come out and watch me fight.

I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.

There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.

I avoid processed food.

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'

UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.

My personal feeling is that Bernard Hopkins has never been an industry boy.

Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.

Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.

You look at De La Hoya, and you think that he is an actor or a singer. I'd like to rearrange a couple of things on his face so the pretty boy becomes just another boxer.

A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.

Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins is an event where actors and actresses will come out, and I give all credit to Oscar for that.

I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.

Oscar De La Hoya is unique. Even Ray Leonard didn't have the star power Oscar has.

To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

If you notice, in every fight, I always have something to get into their head.

Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'

I'm a guy that likes to work in the spa and get on the elliptical.

Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

It's the inner that produces the outer.

The worst damage a person - a fighter or even a person that's just everyday living - is shorten your life by your lifestyle.

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.

When guys say at the press conference, 'I'm not scared' - now, for a guy to tell me he's not scared of me means that you are scared.

When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an athlete - to react to something in a time when something is going on, and you can't be a second or two behind.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.

If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

Being able to do what I do in the ring and out of the ring is evidence that I'm not from this world.

Soda is the worst thing.

I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.

I'm a health-awareness guy, and all of that includes how I eat, how much I rest, and how I keep my skin good. Any kind of maintenance that I would do on a car, I do on myself.

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.

I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.

When I left the penitentiary, I learned to stay away from the Philly cheesesteaks, the pizza, the junk that clogs your arteries and kills you.

I don't rest in my business interests, I don't rest being a husband, I don't rest being a father, and I don't rest doing none of these things because when you rest, you get comfortable.

If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.

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.

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

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.

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.

You've got to be willing to look at a guy's face and say I will kill you if I have to. You've got to be willing to look in his face and say that I will stab you, I will hurt you and you can't talk the game, you've got to really act and do the game. 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.

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

The media here know that there's the possibility that I can pull this off. I'm confident. Confidence comes with work. When you prepare yourself and you know you're going into combat with all of your bullets, you have the confidence to go into battle.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they're gone. Look at me at 50, I'm going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When 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.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

I function better when my back is to the wall.

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