Jimmy Fallon Quotes

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I'll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.

I don't wanna fight a street fighter.

The first am fight I had, I was 10 yrs. old. I didn't count, but as far as I remember, it was approximately 350 fights. It was a lot of fights.

It's my business. Fighting, it's my business. It's my job.

Yes, I started off as a bare-knuckle boxer.

Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

I think there's always going to be a problem dealing with firearms, with knives. It's the animal we are that cause the problems.

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

I wasn't a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights 'cause in the neighborhood I grew up in, that wasn't equated with bad behavior almost. I mean, we'd fought like it was another game. 'You wanna play stick ball today?' 'Nah, let's go fight.'

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

An armed society is a polite society.

I'm a street fighter.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.