Bernard Hopkins

If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop. Bernard Hopkins

Simple Smoke Smoking

If you really look at it, I have done the 'American Dream' that people have died on boats to come here to live. Bernard Hopkins

American Dream Done Look

Age is not an enemy to me. Bernard Hopkins

Age Enemy Me

Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator. Bernard Hopkins

Always Refrigerator Think

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. Bernard Hopkins

Fighter Jungle Myself

If your car takes 95 and you put 87 in it, it's gonna run sluggish, right? A lot of people don't realize what you put in your body affects your mechanics, and you're gonna run sluggish. Bernard Hopkins

Body Car People

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

Always Much Purpose

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

Know Your

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. Bernard Hopkins

First Know Look

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. Bernard Hopkins

Greatness New Old School

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

I Am Legacy

I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation. Bernard Hopkins

Bad Emotions React

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. Bernard Hopkins

Chance Fighting Mind

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

Hit Say Science

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. Bernard Hopkins

Science Sweet Your

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards. Bernard Hopkins

Me Reward Science

If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.' Bernard Hopkins

Definition Dictionary discipline

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

Body Choose discipline