O. J. Simpson Quotes

• "About why I think, and who I think was involved with her death, is this group of just horrible type people that she was hanging around with."
• "Anybody who's been around me for any length of time in the media, they will confirm that everywhere you go, people love you, especially when I leave the country."
• "Because of this tenth year you have the paparazzi and the media coming around the house."
• "Denise, I'm not a fan of Denise in any way, shape or form. She certainly has had nothing to do with my main job. I'm an executive parent."
• "Even I started to get a little affected by the media. Because I would constantly read, he's a pariah. He's this. And for I would say, four or five years, I tentatively went out."
• "Everybody says they worry about my kids. But I would say this to America. You better hope your kids end up like my kid."
• "Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life."
• "Everything has been pretty cool. Everywhere we go, people are terrific. And we really haven't had, in the last five or six years, any real significant incident outside the home."
• "I am a target."
• "I am angry that she found herself hanging out with the group of-who are these people?"
• "I am not a big fan of Marcia. Good, she got $4.3 million for her book. I just don't think she's a nice person."
• "I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff here and there."
• "I broke a glass. One of you guys had just called me, and I was in the bathroom, and I just kind of went bonkers for a little bit."
• "I broke the windshield... it's mine... there's no trouble here."
• "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."
• "I could put those Bruno Maglia shoes on your feet with a computer."
• "I developed pensions from my various companies that I, you know, started. OJ Simpson Enterprises, Orenthal Productions, and so that one day I'd be able to retire, and live comfortably. And fortunately, that rainy day, I was prepared for it."
• "I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever."
• "I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed."
• "I didn't do the crime. I'm not going to pay them a dime. And that's the name of that tune, you know."
• "I don't feel like anybody dropped me. Ahmad Rashad and I had a problem long before this happened."
• "I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that."
• "I don't want that woman in my bed anymore! I got two other women. I don't want that woman in my bed!"
• "I ended up doing community service."
• "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 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 have a lot of confidence... that they'll find-as the record stands now-that I did not, would not, and could not have committed this crime."
• "I have always wanted to be liked and respected."
• "I have been praised, kidded, and criticized about being image-conscious. And I plead guilty to the charge."
• "I have four kids-two kids I haven't seen in a year. They asked me every week, Dad how much longer?"
• "I haven't gone out and actively tried to pursue any work."
• "I haven't seen any diary entries. What I saw was during a trial, her therapy notes. And in her therapy notes, she's quite clear about why she wanted me back."
• "I know I'm the number one target, and now you tell me I've got blood all over the place."
• "I loved her. I missed her. Unfortunately at her death, we were at odds. We tried to get back together for a year at her insistence."
• "I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this."
• "I recall bleeding at my house, and then I went to the Bronco. The last thing I did before I left, when I was rushing, was went and got my phone out of the Bronco."
• "I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in."
• "I think America knew me so well, and I also feel that the media help pushed it. But I think being then who I was and then such a ghastly, brutal murder, it had all those elements."
• "I think anybody who's met me, know my personality. Just even around here, when we're not filming. And I like to think I'm a good guy."
• "I think I've been a great citizen."
• "I think I've certainly spent enough money to get the advice of some of the best child psychologists and psychiatrists in the country. And they all say when the kids are ready to talk about it, they'll talk about it."
• "I think Kato's a good guy, that the one thing that has bothered me-I know this is more than one sentence-is that the person that Nicole hated the most is Kato."
• "I want an American male, American female out there, to tell me that if they found out that day that their wife and their ex-wife had drug dealers and hookers who admitted staying in their house. That's what I found out that day. And that's why I went over there and read her the riot act."
• "I want this trial over."
• "I was preparing to move to Florida anyway. And then the deaths happened, and that kind of derailed me. I thought I was going to move immediately when my trial was over, but then there was the civil trial and the custody trial."
• "I went into this full-time... hoping to influence the court."
• "I wish this wasn't an element of my life. That happened."
• "I'm almost 57."
• "I'm an up-spirited guy. And despite what I've gone through, I've survived."
• "I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?"
• "I'm going to be leaving out of Chicago on the first available flight. I will come back to Los Angeles."
• "I'm going to take on the challenge of helping black kids in every way I can. That's part of the image I want."
• "I'm mindful of the mood and the stamina of this jury."
• "I'm not a guy to get in fights. I said my record speaks for itself. How many people know me to get in fights? How many fights have I been in?"
• "I'm not black, I'm O.J."
• "I'm not doing nothing that the law doesn't dictate me to do."
• "I'm sorry, guys. I'm sorry I put you through this."
• "I've been offered all kinds of cash in the past to take my kids and go to the gravesite."
• "I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime."
• "I've got to admit that the Miami Police have been great."
• "I've seen a girl on and off. And then for a few years I was seeing other girls. And then I'm seeing the girl that I've been seeing her mostly on and off for the last eight years, and it's on right now."
• "If it means giving them money for something I didn't do, I won't work. I make no bones about this."
• "If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend."
• "If you think I'm guilty, then you have any faith, well I'll spend eternity in damnation. Well, I wasn't guilty. I didn't do it. I'm happy with my life."
• "It's a Bronco. It's what I drive, you know. I'd rather drive it than any other car."
• "Lou and Judy have been very helpful to me over the years. You know, daughters are so emotional. Sons, they do dumb things. I've done enough dumb things in my life that I can deal with that."
• "Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character."
• "Most days, I got three or four groups of guys that I play with. And in recent years, in the last probably year and a half, I started traveling a lot, more so than I had probably in the previous six years."
• "Most of my friends will not travel, vacation, unless they're with me. Because they love the fact they don't have wait in lines. And even from the Vatican to Las Vegas nightclubs they rush me in. And half the time I don't even have to pay the bill."
• "My average day starts real early. I go to bed early. I used to get a kick out of the media, the tabloids saying I was on South Beach."
• "My daughter graduated without any, to my knowledge, tattoos or unusual piercings."
• "My house seems to be the meeting place for their group of friends. They're both kids, they're happy kids. They're, once again, very active as we've said in school activities."
• "My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money."
• "My only interest in school was gettin' out, so I took courses like home economics, and didn't exactly kill myself."
• "My wife has indicated we have a great marriage. We had one bad night in our life."
• "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."
• "Nicole's a strong girl, one of the most conditioned women."
• "Not guilty."
• "Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?"
• "Sports was lucky for me. If I hadn't been on the high school football team, there's no question but that I would've been sent to jail for three years."
• "That's not a day that we've ever honored one way or the other. If it wasn't for the media, I probably wouldn't even know the date."
• "The average person cannot quote the true evidence of my case. They quote stuff that came out of media."
• "The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top."
• "The only time I actually have security guards around me is if I'm going out and I know I'm going to be drinking so that they drive."
• "There are things that she could be doing with the kids better than than I, you know?"
• "There are times I am angry at her."
• "There's no Bronco chase."
• "They felt to some degree, probably I may have been involved with the death of Nicole. But we realized that at this point the kids were the most important and that we needed to put our differences aside, at least when it came to the kids."
• "They seized assets of mine, mostly in the furniture and art and stuff. They sold the Heisman for a couple hundred thousand dollars."
• "They're going to continually try to rope you, and bring you down in it. And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing, except move on and be positive in your life."
• "To this day they still think that the Bronco chase, most people, I guarantee of those 77 people, you couldn't convince them that the Bronco ride, or follow, was not part of my trial."
• "We had a fight. We were both guilty. No one was hurt. It was no big deal."
• "We have a big fight about six years ago on New Year's, she made a report. I didn't make a report. And then we had an altercation about a year ago maybe. It wasn't a physical argument. I kicked her door or something."
• "We tried to get back together, and it just didn't work. It wasn't working, and so we were going our separate ways."
• "Well, if we don't respect our own system, what do you expect the rest of the world to feel."
• "Well, most of the tough stuff you hear me yelling on that tape, I'm talking to Kato."
• "What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?"
• "What people don't realize is that even when I was in Los Angeles, especially when I started playing golf, most of the people I hung out with were people from the business world."
• "When it comes to the law and the legal system, blacks are far more realistic than whites, because whites don't see the things that we see happen, that cops will do."
• "Whoever did this was left-handed."
• "Willie didn't give me no discipline rap; we drove over to his place and spent the afternoon talking sports."
• "You've been out here eight times before and now you're going to arrest me for this? This is a family matter."