Bernard Hopkins

"Let him leave his home town and try to invade the United States and beat Bernard Hopkins, a great champion, a legend."

"I've never ducked anyone. Bernard Hopkins has beaten people that nobody else wanted to fight — Winky Wright, Antonio Tarver. I knocked out Felix Trinidad easily, Oscar de la Hoya with a body shot, I had world title 20 defences."

"I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight."

"I feel in an executioner mood, I am going to punish him and punish him slowly."