“I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength.”

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Rocky’ and ‘Rocky III’ were the best.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

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

They used to call me ‘Touchdown T.’ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‘I’m going to run for three touchdowns.’ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.

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.

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.

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.

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

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man’s jaw with his fist.

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.

I’m a free spirit.

You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show,

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.