Markus Zusak Quotes

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

Take your time and strike a man so that he feels he is dying.

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

I should probably start with the blood.

As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the V of another guy’s thighs. Falling, he makes a noise that I can’t say I’ve heard a human utter before, sort of like I imagine a puppy would sound being put through a juicer.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Violence is not funny.

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

In football, you can always maim a person if you wanted to.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

I'm looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies.