My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.
MR. TI hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.
More Mr. T Quotes
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I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself.
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Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!
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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.
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As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
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I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants.
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My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.
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I don’t call up the press and say, ‘Look at me!’
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Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.
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Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that’s me.
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I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.
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I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.
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If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.
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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.
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I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
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I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.
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