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Quotes from Booker T

It was a hell of a ride in WCW. Still, to this day, I will be WCW until the day I die.
~ Booker T
You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.
~ Booker T
Baltimore is a great wrestling town.
~ Booker T
Personally, I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat. People need to stop focusing on becoming part of a party and instead voting with their mind and their heart.
~ Booker T
That's what cool about me being here and still being in the wrestling business. I can still give back, even being in the announcer's booth. I still feel like I'm a role model and I have a job to do.
~ Booker T
I never said that I was retired. I never said that I was never gonna put the boots on ever again.
~ Booker T
Boston is awesome, man. It's a rush to go out there and perform.
~ Booker T
Sometimes, watching someone and... Like, for myself, I got a chance to meet Muhammad Ali. He invited me to his hotel, and I got a chance to take photos with him. It was the most awesome moment of my life.
~ Booker T
Everyone deserves a second chance. That's just the way I am.
~ Booker T
Aw, man, it's huge to actually have a platform and let the world see Reality of Wrestling as well as to be able to compete with all the other independent companies around the world.
~ Booker T
Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don't call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst.
~ Booker T
I love what I'm seeing out there with Pro Wrestling Syndicate, Northeast Wrestling, Big Time Wrestling, and WildKat in New Orleans. There is a lot of good stuff out there.
~ Booker T
It was a great ride, 10-time world tag team champion with my brother and then to work with Sheri Martell back in the days, you know, a dream come true.
~ Booker T
My thing has always been preparation. When I was a performer on the roster as one of the guys on a weekly, full-time schedule, I was always prepared.
~ Booker T
The thing is you never know what you can do until you try it. Even if you try, you still may fail, but that's when you have to go and prepare because if you're not prepared, you're preparing to fail.
~ Booker T
Of course I've always wanted to make a decent pay like everybody else.
~ Booker T
I always say that Sheri Martell was that one thing that put Harlem Heat on the map, made us a legitimate tag team.
~ Booker T
Muhammad Ali was my idol, and I always say, if Muhammad Ali had told me the exact same thing my mother, the principal, the security guard, my brothers... you know, the same thing they were telling me that I didn't listen to, I would have listened, just because it came from Muhammad Ali.
~ Booker T
Pro wrestling is entertainment, but people get hurt all of the time.
~ Booker T
There's been so many rivals, most of them Canadian guys like Rick Martel, Christian and Chris Benoit. Those guys were all ultimate professionals, every one of them.
~ Booker T
Tell your kids you love them as much as you possibly can, because you're not promised one second to the next.
~ Booker T
We listened to Donald Trump speak at the debate about 'Stop and Frisk.' I don't think it's a good way to go through life. I don't think that's going to solve any of our problems. It's actually going to make racial tension a whole lot worse, and it's going to make us feel like we're singled out.
~ Booker T
In professional wrestling, I'm sure in combat sports, there's always gonna be testosterone.
~ Booker T
Most people who are not of color, their parents didn't need to tell them how to act around police or what to do if they ever got pulled over. Never, not once. We are taught that in the black neighborhoods. I've been profiled and pulled over, so it's not like I don't know.
~ Booker T