Joseph Parker Quotes

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

It's all fun and games 'till someone loses an eye, then it's just fun you can't see.

I saw my brother have an altercation one time. He hit a guy with a left hook to the body and a right hand to the chin. He not only knocked the guy out, but out of wind. That stuck with me. It scared me.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

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’m going to be beaten and unless some change takes place, badly beaten.

I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.

Every time a fighter steps into the ring, he's borrowing against his future well-being.

I understand why my mum and my wife can't bear to watch me fight. There's a lot of blood, a lot of pain.

You can only fall so far through a tree before the limbs become abrasive to your body.

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.

We like to entertain, but it is not our duty to do so. I have had a lot of exciting fights and been hit way too much, so that is something to think about.

There's a lot psychologically going on in boxing... I think I relate to some of it. I have a respect for it. It's like performing, but it's also this crazy, self-destructive thing.

I broke Steve McMahon's nose twice in one night.

Every man who gets in that ring has the ability to hurt you.

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.

I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.

Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

Miles'd got killed if he hit me.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

Any game that you step on, you can get beat.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.