Bernard Hopkins

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. ”

If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not? ”

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 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 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. ”

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

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. ”

I think being 50 and being me is different than any other fighter in any era. ”

Soda is the worst thing. ”

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