God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, 'I've beaten it. You can, too.'

I'm proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that's not good.

If every man loves his mother, he's going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.

I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose - there are some roles I don't play.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

My gold, my money couldn't stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can't save me, then I don't need them.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out... but he's back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don't quit.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don't be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don't even rhyme with T.

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

Obama's not Jesus. He can't walk on water.

My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

I am a tough guy.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

To kids, I've always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough - I box and do karate - but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

I'm tender on the inside.

I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.

I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to 'believe in God' and 'don't give up' to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can't call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

This guy Clubber Lang, I've been him all my life. He's mean and hungry just like me.

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.

I was a straight-A student. But I was a bad lad.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don't just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

When you give, it comes back to you.

If you look at my job, my union card, it says 'actor.' It don't say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that's one thing that keeps me humble.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn't doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.

I'm so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I'm happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

I go down the street, people see me: 'Hey, I pity-' right on, man, that's a compliment to me.

Like Frank Sinatra, I'm doing it my way.

I'm a free spirit.

Why am I here? I'm not lucky. That's God.