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.

It's the inner that produces the outer.

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

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

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

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

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

I feel like I was blacklisted in 1965.

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

I understand and I don't understand human beings.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.

Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins is an event where actors and actresses will come out, and I give all credit to Oscar for that.