I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.
Bernard HopkinsI really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.
Bernard HopkinsThe NBA has a voice that's why they have a lockout. The NFL has a voice that's why they had a lockout. Boxing is the only sport that's individually represented the individual people - Managers, Promoters and Boxers.
Bernard HopkinsSmokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have never known one of the greatest boxing talents ever to come out of Philadelphia.
Bernard Hopkins