Jeff Cooper Quotes

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

I used to fight in school. I was a rough, athletic child. I always knew I could fight and, watching UFC, I was always fascinated by it.

I could legitimately put someone in a headlock, for sure.

I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.

No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.

When somebody is determined to whup your ass, without regard to any concern for what is fair, you must recognize that the only alternative is to whup his ass by whatever means or methods are available.

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

When a man holds you round the throat, I don't think he has come to apologise.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

If a guy drew a charge on me, I tried to kick him in the balls.

I had started also studying because I wanted to learn more about power and fighting.

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

It took a long time for me to walk. I was falling down all the time. But I ended up being one of the dangerous men, who broke so many people's noses, which is bad.

If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.

Do that again and, bracelet or no bracelet, I’ll tear your head off and use it for a doorstop. (Xypher)