Physical Confrontation Quotes

Nobody wants to be trapped inside that cage me. They don't want to be cut by my elbows, they don't want to get hit by any of my kicks and they don't want their conditioning checked by me.

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!

I've been in a few fights and I know what it's like to get punched in the face.

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.

The number of old ladies who've beaten me up on TV is absolutely ridiculous.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

I could never stand big-mouthed types. I had problems with that at high school. I’ve still got the scars on my fists from the teeth of the guys I hit so that they’d finally shut up. I came from England to Canada, of course, and was often ridiculed because I had a strange accent. I was expelled from school and it was a long time before I could control myself. But the impulse remained: a punch in the mouth to get some peace and quiet.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

I lost six months of work due to throwing open punches and took a punch on the chin.

Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.

I'm a guy who looks to put the pressure and come out with the knockout or the submission.

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

I've been in the ring with the Bronze Bomber, Deontay Wilder. I've tasted his power, and he's tasted mine.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

If I don't knock out Lennox Lewis, I am going to beat the hell out of him.

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.

I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.

When you're going in there with Brock Lesnar, you can't have anything else on your mind.

If words suffice not, blows must follow.

Just as the difference in height between males is no longer a realistic issue, now that lawsuits have been substituted for hand-to-hand encounters, so the difference in strength between men and women is no longer worth elaboration in cultural institutions.

Everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face.