Charlamagne tha God Quotes

Never apologize, mister. It's a sign of weakness.

I'm a big boy, and I'm a tough guy.

When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.

My father was a man's man and was always respected for being a straight shooter. My dad always had an amazing sense of calm about him.

I'm not going to sidestep anybody, I'm not going to back down from anybody at any weight, and most importantly, I'm not going to pick on a guy who is weaker.

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.

I've always been a proud man.

I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I like guys who, no matter what, are men.

That was Dad. Don't take any dirt from anybody.

I don't need a huge pit bull to tell me I'm tough.

When I'm thinking of sports, when I'm thinking of a boy growing up and being a man, I'm thinking of three things - honor, integrity, and toughness.

My dad is a true man. A man's man. Every manly thing he does, he does so well.

Me personally, I can take getting beat, if it's about basketball. But when it gets to the point where you're being personal, and being disrespectful as a man to another man, that's when I have a problem.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

Like, I get along with everybody. I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

Normally, I've found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I've had a chance and the honor to serve with didn't pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.