Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison. George Foreman
Being here feels like I'm out of prison. This is the right place, the right time, the right team. Shaquille ONeal
During my time in prison, I told myself that I wanted to be a part of the solution and not the problem. Michael Vick
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent. Michael Eric Dyson
I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided. Michael Vick
I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards. Amanda Beard
I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope. Lex Luger
I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. Jack Henry Abbott
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. Winston churchill
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. Oscar Wilde
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause. Jack Henry Abbott
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. Jack Henry Abbott
That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself. Michael Vick
That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.Jayson Williams
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. Michael Vick
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. Jack Henry Abbott