Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete O. J. Simpson.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Orenthal James Simpson, nicknamed "Juice", is an American former football running back, broadcaster, actor, and advertising spokesman. Once a popular figure with the U.S. public, he is now best known for being tried for the murders of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman. Simpson was acquitted of the murders in criminal court but was later found responsible for both deaths in a civil trial.
Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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.
Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.
I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.
I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?
I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
I think I've been a great citizen.
I believe in the jury system.
Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
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.
If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.
I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.
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've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
I consider myself a relatively moral guy
I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.
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.
I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
Thinking ... is what gets you caught from behind.
Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.
You don`t get mood swings from eating cornflakes
There is no prayer so blessed as the prayer which asks for nothing.
I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.
In America you get as much justice as you can afford.
Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.
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 bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.
Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.
I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.
NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.
Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth-all that is illusion. All that endures is character.
I've - all my life with Nicole [Brown], no matter what was going on, I handled it without being physical with her.
Women are my biggest defenders. It's that bad-boy syndrome. Now girls chase me.
There is no principle involved in my holdout. Only money.