- [1998, in Esquire Magazine] Let's say I committed this crime . . . even if I did do this, it would have been because I loved her very much, right?
- [1975, in Playboy magazine] The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
- [1995, on his acquittal] When things have settled down a bit I will pursue as my primary goal in life the killer or killers who slaughtered [Nicole Brown Simpson] and [Ron Goldman].
- [1970s, interview with Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service about his acting career] Obviously, I'm not Dustin Hoffman. I have to play an athletic type, just as Woody Allen has to play a wimp type. No matter how many acting lessons I took, the public just wouldn't buy me as Othello.
- If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
- [about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman] I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
- 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.
- [about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman] I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.
- [about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman] I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
- Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
- [upon being told that his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson was dead] Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
- My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
- [about allegations that he had beaten his wife Nicole Brown Simpson on at least one occasion] I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
- I tend to watch a little TV . . . Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
- I think I've been a great citizen.
- I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with [Nicole Brown Simpson] which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
- I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
- I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
- [on talking about his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson to his children] It 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.
- [upon being told that his children had been taken out of his house to a police station] What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
- [about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman] I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
- [about the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman] I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
- I've always thought I've been pretty good with people I've basically spend a conflict free life.
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