Bernard Hopkins

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. ”

I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular. ”

You do a deal - business deal, real estate deal, stock deal - protect yourself at all times. I got that from boxing. That's from A to Z: that covers everything in life. And it started when I heard it in the ring. They don't say that in basketball or football or any other sport that I know of but boxing. ”

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

I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life. ”

That materialistic life, that's not my god. ”

I've had a hard life. I smell and sense fear. I didn't get that from Catholic school; I know what fear is. ”

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

My whole career, I got a lot of credit for not taking punches. ”

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. ”