My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.
MR. TWe 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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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.
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I don’t call up the press and say, ‘Look at me!’
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If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.
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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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I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.
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You cross me, I’m going to hurt you. But I’m really very gentle.
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I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‘I’ve beaten it. You can, too.’
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I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.
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God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning.
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I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.
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My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.
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Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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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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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.
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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.
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If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story.
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When you give, it comes back to you.
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Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!
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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.
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I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.
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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.
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I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.
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Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.
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Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.
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I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.
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I’m tender on the inside.
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