“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.”

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.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I’m tender on the inside.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains.

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.

Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for “taking a stand” on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way.

You’re never too good to get better… take that and apply that to everything in your life.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don’t learn, then it’s an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you’re able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

When it applies to the Olympics and making a decision, I have to claim Australia as my country.

He stares at me, and I don’t look away. He isn’t a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive.

Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War’s very object is victory-not prolonged indecision.