Enjoy that you can see me now. I would love to see the great Michael Jordan and Julius Erving in their younger days, but they're gone. Look at me at 50, I'm going to eat right and live right so I can take less punches and look normal.
Bernard HopkinsYou think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.
Bernard HopkinsI was made to be where I'm at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.
Bernard HopkinsThe only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.
Bernard Hopkins