Bernard Hopkins

Most of my fights are intelligent.

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

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

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.

Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.

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

No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.

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.

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

Yes, we have to look at our opponents and study our opponents. But you have to look at you first and know you can do it.

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

Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.

I'm amongst you all, but I'm not one of you all.

The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

I learned a lot from being in hell. I learned discipline. I learned that I choose what to put in my body.

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.

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.

I have already bent time to my will.

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.