Ryan Lochte Quotes

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

You go into this survival instinct mode, when you feel like your life is in jeopardy. I found myself in the bathroom with my taser, which I have 10 of, my panic button and my cell phone. It was the most terrifying experience I've ever had in my life

If anyone comes near you, just scream and run.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

I'm going to have my 40 and my AR.If you're in San Bernardino, and God forbid somebody's there - if I'm in that room, I want a Sheriff Clarke there that's armed or a Bo Dietl that's armed or Katie Pavlich or Sean Hannity armed. And I don't understand why people don't understand that. That's simple to me. It's common sense.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

Wake up, Astrid. Your psychotic criminal is playing with knives. (Sasha)

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer for it.

I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.

The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

I believe my first duty is to survive. And I'm not just talking about criminals coming into my home. I once seriously considered getting a gun to protect myself from the police. If I need a weapon to continue living, I'll get one. And I'll use it.

Maura whirled towards Blue. "Blue, if you ever see that man again, you just walk the other way." "No," Calla corrected. "Kick him in the nuts. Then run the other way.

When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.