Quotes from Bernard Hopkins

That materialistic life, that's not my god.

Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.

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

We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.

Protect yourself at all times. It's what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I'm not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

I have already bent time to my will.

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

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

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

Ninety percent of the media picked Pavlik, and I always appreciate naysayers. That's what motivates me.

I am a great champion.

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.

You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.

I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.

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.

I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.

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.

I avoid processed food.

It's the inner that produces the outer.