Roughhousing Quotes

What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.

It's fun to slap people around.

It's much more fun, I think, to watch something physical than just heads talking to each other. I like watching people fall down and push each other.

I'm a rah, rah guy's guy. I like to talk about sports and put people in headlocks.

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

I grew up with an older brother, so I'm pretty good at being bashed around.

When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.

I was 100 percent tomboy. I had the biggest Big Wheels.

I purely attribute my 'hamming it up' quality to growing up with three older brothers and just being like a tomboy my whole life. Literally, my mother had to be like, 'Honey, there's a certain point where you have to start wearing a shirt.' You know, I would run around with the boys and play tag football and climb trees.

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.

We had four guys in the family, so somebody was always hitting somebody or chasing somebody or getting mad or fighting or wrestling - that was just what you did. So when you're the youngest, it's good for you. You figure out real early how to get out of headlocks and holds.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

I grew up with a younger brother, so I can get pretty rowdy.

The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.

I grew up with brothers, and we would play-fight a lot.

I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

I grew up playing paintball and riding motorcycles and horses, so I really know how to rough and tumble.

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

My brother and I loved to body-slam each other when we were kids. We tore up a lot of furniture.

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.