Biografie

Was considered for the title role in Terminator (1984), but producers feared he was "too nice" to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded killer.

A Las Vegas (NV) jury convicted him of armed robbery and kidnapping in 2008, 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

The second professional athlete to host Saturday Night Live (1975) (February 25, 1978). He was the only former host not invited to attend the show's 25th Anniversary Special.

Multiple attempts at a Hollywood comeback yielded no offers.

On June 17, 1994, OJ Simpson was arrested and charged with the June 12, 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. OJ was tried for the double murders with special circumstances on January 24, 1995, and on October 3, 1995, he was found not guilty after 16 months of confinement.

[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.