A biography for Bernard Hopkinshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I looked up to Marvin Hagler, Ali.”
“They had to debate whether Joe Frazier should be in the Boxing Hall of Fame or not. I'm making sure that it would be a felony to sit down and debate whether or not Bernard Hopkins deserves to be in the hall of fame.”
“Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.”
“I don't think I can get Jack Nicholson to come out and watch me fight.”
“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.”
“Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'”
“Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.”
“I like to do things that are noncombat- or boxing-related. So I jump rope a lot, and then I run a lot.”
“If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.”
“I am a great champion.”
“I've shown, for twenty-plus years, with a legacy that will be talked about way after I'm gone, that I am different.”
“I don't have a diet. Jenny Craig got a diet. Seriously. I eat to live, not to die.”
“That materialistic life, that's not my god.”
“I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.”
“I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.”
“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 avoid processed food.”
“If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live.”
“I'm tired of proving myself.”