I got no time for the jibba-jabba.
First name: Mister; middle name: period; last name T.
I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.
Somedays you eat the bear, somedays the bear eats you
I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.
As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.
You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
It takes a smart guy to play dumb.
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.
Any man who doesn't love his mama can't be no friend of mine.
I'm tender when I need to be. I'm tough when I should to be.
Love is a verb and verbs show action
I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled out his wallet and showed me three pictures of his kids; Kelly, Robert, Brittany. Real cute kids. Don't get too close man. It's hard to pity a fool if you get too close.
Anger - use it, but don't lose it!
God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.
When I look back on my work, I'm proud of what I've done.
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 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.
My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.
Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?
You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.
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 wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were shackled by their neck, they wrist and they ankles in steel chains. I turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fight. I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.
I wanna feed 5,000 like Jesus, I wanna build a community center where the homeless and less fortunate can come take a shower, get a hot meal and a change of clothes. Maybe not new clothes but some clean clothes. Those are my goals, my raps and goals haven't changed. I'm about helping somebody, I use my celebrity status for the good of mankind. That's what I do, so for all the Hip-Hop people, if they just pull from me the gold, they're missing so much.
Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!
