“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.”

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

NBC had a show called ‘The Toughest Bouncer in America’ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‘bouncer.’.

I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B.

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

I don’t worry. I don’t doubt. I’m daring. I’m a rebel.

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

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

If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

I know about two things: ‘Rocky III’ and Clubber Lang, and ‘A-Team’ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

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.

Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.

I’ve been around a while. I kinda know these things.

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house.

If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.

I respect that. I can respect you more by doing that. But don’t smile in my face, shake my hand, and then you don’t really respect me, or want me to be around, or come to your games as the owner of the Clippers.

Around the world, America’s influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

Get his master’s in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around.