Martin Compston Quotes

I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.

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 got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

I definitely got into a lot of fights when I was a kid. I never understood it. I was one of those quiet kids. I never picked with no one.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

I used to stay getting in fights.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I'd become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

Whenever I don’t know whether to fight or not, I fight.

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.

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.

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.

I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.

I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

Don’t swear; fight!

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

Aggression has proven to get people in trouble, in many ways, with the champions.

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

I've always been a dominant and violent person.