My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people.
MR. TI hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.
More Mr. T Quotes
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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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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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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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When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.
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When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.
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I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.
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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 am a tough guy.
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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.
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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’ll never have a wedding. I don’t want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.
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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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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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To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.
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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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