Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.
MR. TRocky’ and ‘Rocky III’ were the best.
More Mr. T Quotes
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When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors.
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I don’t call up the press and say, ‘Look at me!’
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I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
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I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.
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I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.
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When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‘Mister,’ a sign of respect.
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I’m tender on the inside.
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Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.
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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.
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I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.
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My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people.
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I answer only to God.
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When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains.
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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.
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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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