You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.

I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.

The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

Thug Life to me is dead.

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.

I followed the footsteps of Scarface, Willie D, Bushwick Bill, Big Pokey, Lil Keke, Fat Pat, Big Moe, and Slim Thug. Those are the people who I was following behind, not the white rappers who came before me. No disrespect intended, I just didn't follow that lane, I followed this one.

As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and '66, I immediately left Chicago where I was working in a nightclub that was being shaken down by the mafia and the police for payments. I mean, it was a real thug world.

We're ending the situation where any old thug can turn up and work as a bailiff.

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

I was a thug.

There was no person, whether they thought I was too fat, too black, too country, too ghetto, too New York, too thug or too whatever! Nobody ultimately had the say over whether or not I was going to make it.

Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.

This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.

Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

Everybody thinks I'm a thug or something like that.

That's my boy. Young Thug making hits!

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

It isn't about being or not being a thug. It's about being real. I think that is how street respect is earned.