You cross me, I'm going to hurt you. But I'm really very gentle.

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.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn't drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that's who I am.

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

I always say I'm one of the toughest mama's boys you're ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it's nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody's spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

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.

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

I'll never have a wedding. I don't want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

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.

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.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

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

I'm proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that's not good.

If every man loves his mother, he's going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.

I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose - there are some roles I don't play.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

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.

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

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.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

I didn't come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it's sickening.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don't be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don't even rhyme with T.

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. 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.

Obama's not Jesus. He can't walk on water.

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. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.

I am a tough guy.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Don't be getting sloppy drunk and telling them dirty jokes.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

To kids, I've always been more than just some big tough black guy. I train to be tough - I box and do karate - but underneath all that toughness is a tender man.

I'm tender on the inside.

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.

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.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,' so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

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.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to 'believe in God' and 'don't give up' to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can't call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.

I don't do Shakespeare. I don't talk in that kind of broken English.

This guy Clubber Lang, I've been him all my life. He's mean and hungry just like me.