Wild Bill Hickok Quotes

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

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

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.'

A boy on the team, who shall remain nameless, constantly picked on me during practice. I bided my time, and when I had the chance to wrestle him, I took every advantage I could. I bent fingers, dug my nails into his skin and rammed my elbow into various, tender, parts of him. I basically beat him down in front of the whole team.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

[On appeasement:] If you let a bully come into your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

I get angry when people push people around.

The whole key to a fight is throwing the first punch.

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 grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I'm not stupid. After you just punch me, I'm not gonna be like, 'Alright, let me do that again.'

I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.

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.

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.