“My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.”

I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet.

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

If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

I’ll never have a wedding. I don’t want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‘Look at me!’

Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

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

I used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.

Unless you sit down and talk to your dad and say, ‘Why weren’t you there?’ and he says, ‘I’m going to really tell you the truth,’ then you won’t know.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

In the game of basketball, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

This man [Barack Obama] does not have the interests of our country. That’s not his agenda. His agenda is to bring us down to a third-world country.

For me, heaven is likely to be a bit of a come-down.

If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.

It comes down to this: either you control money, or it controls you. To control money, you must manage it.