Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.

I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.

Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special.

I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.

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

Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'

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.

I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.

When guys say at the press conference, 'I'm not scared' - now, for a guy to tell me he's not scared of me means that you are scared.

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

I'm so glad that I didn't give up on myself and there were people who didn't give up on me.

When they say you can't, show them you can.

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.

I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.

I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.

I don't have a diet. Jenny Craig got a diet. Seriously. I eat to live, not to die.

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

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

If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.

It's the inner that produces the outer.

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.

Soda is the worst thing.

The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.

My personal feeling is that Bernard Hopkins has never been an industry boy.

When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

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.

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

When you get older, the first thing that starts to go is reflexes, and reflexes are important for any person, especially an athlete - to react to something in a time when something is going on, and you can't be a second or two behind.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

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.

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.

I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.

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.

To me, you can be young in your mind, in the way you think, but if your body don't come with that, then it's wishful thinking.

UFC is street fighting in a cage. Boxing is a controlled, skilled talent. There's no comparison.

If you choose to take a path in life, don't blame other people for the path you've chosen to take.

With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.

I like a challenge. I like learning new skills because I didn't learn much at school.

I think every day how incredibly lucky it is that I travel around the world playing to thousands of people.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.

If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.

I think in South America people are very, uh, they have no inhibitions and wear their hearts on their sleeves - what's the word? They're very expressive, demonstrative.

It's weird: people used to want your autograph; now what they want to do is to take your photograph with an iPhone. And sometimes they'll pop their arm around you to hold their iPhone; they're shaking when they take it.

There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.

It can be an educational thing to play your songs to people because you see where you've gone right and where you've gone wrong.

In New Order, I played about 95% of the synths. It's not much fun for the other guys in the band when I'm playing my synth parts.