Duane Chapman Quotes

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.

I need to get a greater vocabulary than what I have and when I get mad and my brain searches for a word. I have to find different words and to do that you need to have more of an education.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things.

I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

As a bounty hunter, I have to dress the part. If I came to the door and looked like Carrot Top, you'd laugh.

I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that's chase down the predator.

I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

Dog is God spelled backward.

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Where mercy is shown, mercy is given.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.