The Wise Words of B.A. Baracus

Enjoy these excerpts from a recent interview Mr. T gave regarding his new advice show, "I Pity The Fool." If you're interested (and let's be honest, how could you not be?), it premieres on TVLand on October 11.


"You pity the fool because you don't want to beat up a fool. If you pity him, you know, you won't have to beat him up. So that's why I say, fools you gotta give another chance, because they don't know no better."


"My show ain't no Dr. Phil where people sit around crying, 'What's wrong with me Dr. Phil? What's wrong with me Dr. Phil?' You are a fool! That's what's wrong with you!"


"Either you're a fool or you're not. You know me, there's no big or small. If you get on my fool list, that's it, you know ... It's not a shame to say 'Hey, I'm falling to the foolish side. I wonder if you could help me because I don't want to be a fool.' That's what we do. We pity the fool, then we help them, then leave the case, and they're not fools no more."


Concerning a son and father-in-law who work at an auto dealership and became foolish:
"Two things we know are working: the windshield wiper on [the son-in-law's] eyes and the radiator in [the owner's] heart."


"I stopped wearing the gold as of last year during Katrina. As a spiritual man, I felt it would be a sin against my God for me to wear all that gold again.People now on my show, they'll see the gold is in my heart. As a matter of fact, I'll be doing so good you will forget about the gold I used to wear."


On what he calls his mother:
"I call her mother. ...I'm still a mama's boy."
For proof of his love for moms, watch this clip from his highly entertaining motivational video, "Be Somebody...Or Be Somebody's Fool." If you have the means, I highly suggest you pick it up. It is so choice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rBidCkJxo&search=mr.%20t


"No, I'm not married or nothing like that. No. No. Because you know what they say. They always say, you know, 'Just when you find a woman that cooks like your mother, she looks like your mother!'


"The only thing that gets me down is when I'm down doing pushups."


Mr. T. I think I speak for our entire generation when I say, "Thank you. And please don't pity us, for we are not fools."



All quotes from AJC.com.