![One more time: Bernard Hopkins prepares for his final fight.](/web/20161216224837im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/d/7/3/x/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gtd6z7.png/1481927838670.jpg)
Bernard Hopkins, outsider-turned-insider, prepares for final fight
"There's a pattern here," he whispered as if revealing a secret. "The pattern is the DNA of who you are." Bernard Hopkins went on like this for more than an hour, sharing thoughts he formed over a Hall of Fame boxing career that has covered nearly three decades. Some of his lines were insightful, some humorous and some incomprehensible.