Bernard Hopkins Quotes

I'm 100 percent clean. I'm doing this off of nuts and bananas. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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

The NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life. ~ Bernard Hopkins

The powers that be don't want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it's not about the W ... It's everything about the W with me! ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance. ~ Keith Thurman

I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both. ~ Bernard Hopkins

The streets was basically my parents. ~ Bernard Hopkins

You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

You have to go in there and hit him. Show him that his tactics don't work. Bernard Hopkins is a fighter that you have to get straight to the point with. You can't lollygag and bullshit because that's his game. Being serious and doing my job throwing punches in the ring, that's my game. I don't come to put on a show for the people. I come to give the people a fight and give them their money's worth; give them real entertainment. ~ Tavoris Cloud

Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I have the philosophy that I'm different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he's worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I function better when my back is to the wall. ~ Bernard Hopkins

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I don't know what being a 48-year-old feels like. There are a lot of 48 year olds that aren't in good shape. The pharmacy is making a killing off of them. ~ Bernard Hopkins

The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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

The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds. ~ Bernard Hopkins

Hopkins is talking about fighting at Yankee Stadium but that's rubbish. If he fought at Yankee Stadium, even the ushers wouldn't want to watch him. Bernard Hopkins couldn't draw breath. ~ Bob Arum

I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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. ~ Bernard Hopkins

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

Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible. ~ Bernard Hopkins

Early on in my career I had the kind of anxious where you couldn't sleep at night. That anxiousness is like a virus we all have in us. Some you can deal with but some will wipe you out. ~ Bernard Hopkins

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing. ~ Bernard Hopkins

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. ~ Bernard Williams

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. ~ Saint Bernard

Champagne was discovered by a Catholic monk," said Bernard. "Took one swallow and burst out of his cellar yelling, 'I'm drinking stars, I'm drinking stars!' Tequila was invented by a bunch of brooding Indians. Into human sacrifice and pyramids. Somewhere between champagne and tequila is the secret history of Mexico, just as somewhere between beef jerky and Hostess Twinkies is the secret history of America. Or aren't you in the mood for epigrams? ~ Tom Robbins

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate. ~ Bernard Williams

These were not people you could disagree with. If you disagreed, you were wrong."
Juliet Hopkins, Tavistock Institute, as quoted in Relationships and how They Shape Our Capacity to Love By Robert Karen ~ Juliet Hopkins

But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip. ~ Bernard Beckett

My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists. ~ Norman Pirie

We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart. ~ Saint Bernard

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives. ~ Bernard Crick

I couldn't say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone. ~ Anthony Hopkins

Never believed in demons or monsters lurking under my bed. But lately I've started to wonder if evil hasn't in fact infiltrated this world, slithering streets and sidewalks, wearing what- ever disguise suits its immediate purpose. When a choirboy is molested, is it by the devil in a priest costume? Or does Satan play a more clever game to get what he wants? To win the contest, accomplish his goals, might the prince of hatred mask himself as love? ~ Ellen Hopkins

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film. ~ George Bernard Shaw

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and mysticism. Yet ~ Owen Hopkins

The social institutions and attitudes inherited from earlier times and maintained with increasing rigidity made it difficult to adapt to changing circumstances or to create new political and economic institutions which would facilitate such an adaption. An attitude towards unbelievers that varied from condescension in good times, to hostility and mistrust in bad times, made it difficult to learn from them, or even to understand them, at a time when it was the West, and not as previously the Islamic world, that had something to teach. ~ Bernard Lewis

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Permit no man to make a mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your prized possession, value it ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory. ~ Claude Bernard

Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority. ~ Aldous Huxley

To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give. ~ Tristan Bernard

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Eisenhower? Nice chap, no soldier ~ Bernard Montgomery

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived. ~ Bernard DeVoto

The very way that you think is a crucial component to your overall health and well being. Living towards the negative will only foster conflict and a sense of lack, while living towards the positive will create more opportunity for you to experience harmony and abundance. ~ Gary Hopkins

When the banks create the money, they don't create the interest. They send you into the world to compete with everybody else to get the second $100,000 that never was created and bring it back to them. So if we're in a world with zero-growth population, goods, services, and money, the problem would be obvious. ~ Bernard Lietaer

dark. Basically, the more you're aware of what you want these images to convey, the richer the images are going to be. ~ Sheila Curran Bernard

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use. ~ Anthony Hopkins

Now comes the reign of iron - and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships. ~ John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren

Personal Branding is the combination of one's skills and talents to produce value for people that creates an impression, a perception and reputation in the mind of others ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat. ~ Bernard Baruch

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw. ~ Michael Moorcock

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it. ~ Bernard Levin

I never make conscious decisions. ~ Anthony Hopkins