Quotes from O. J. Simpson

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.

I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.

The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.

I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

I believe in the jury system.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.

I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.