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I avoid processed food.
Soda is the worst thing.
I'm tired of proving myself.
I looked up to Marvin Hagler, Ali.
Most of my fights are intelligent.
I have already bent time to my will.
The streets was basically my parents.
It's the inner that produces the outer.
That materialistic life, that's not my god.
I function better when my back is to the wall.
A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.
If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.
You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.
No one's kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.
The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.
Some people might think they're invincible, but I don't.
Ninety-nine percent of getting over a problem is mental.
I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.
I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
I have an orthodox style that a southpaw is confused with me.
My whole career, I got a lot of credit for not taking punches.
I'm 100 percent clean. I'm doing this off of nuts and bananas.
I saw worse stuff inside prison than I ever saw in the streets.
I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.
I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.
Always have to think like a guy with no food in his refrigerator.
I don't really look toward the future. I only look at the present.
I don't think I can get Jack Nicholson to come out and watch me fight.
I don't react and think off emotions - that gets you in a bad situation.
I respect people's opinion. Everybody has they own 'pound for pound' list.
My personal feeling is that Bernard Hopkins has never been an industry boy.
When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.
Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.
If you notice, in every fight, I always have something to get into their head.
I think I got the ability to speak the truth, and that gets in peoples' heads.
The powers that be don’t want athletes or boxers to become as smart as they are.
I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.
There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.
Oscar De La Hoya is unique. Even Ray Leonard didn't have the star power Oscar has.
I don't have a diet. Jenny Craig got a diet. Seriously. I eat to live, not to die.
If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
Most people remember the ending of the book more than the beginning and the middle.
If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.
There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.
If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not?
Boxing is a small world where the same thing that goes on, goes on in corporate America.
If you read Bernard Hopkins' name in the dictionary, the definition would be 'discipline.'
I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.
If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.