Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.
MR. TWhen 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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If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.
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I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.
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Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.
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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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I’m tender on the inside.
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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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My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.
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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’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.
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Basically, I wear sandals, like Jesus. When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals. But that’s me.
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Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.
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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’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.
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Don’t be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.
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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.
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