Peter Berg Quotes

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

I've never scratched, or punched, or slapped anybody in my real life.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

I used to stay getting in fights.

When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I'd become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.

Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.

Don’t swear; fight!

We require our fighters to be ready hurricanes, on-call combat machines. We want them held easily in check, and we expect light-switch control over their aggression…. We vaguely hope their anger does not spill over, or come home.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

Fighting is not something you can just turn off.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

There's definitely ways to get your anger out and not have to yell and kick and scream and fight people. That's not my jam. That's never how I've been.

I was never the person to try and be the centre of attention or to talk a lot. I was always the person who, if you say something, I'd just punch you in your face. For real.

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

Aggression has proven to get people in trouble, in many ways, with the champions.

People who don't understand fighting think you need to hate somebody to beat them. But I keep hate and anger out of boxing, because it causes mistakes.

It is so easy to avoid getting in a fist fight. If you're at a point where you're squaring up against someone in public, then it's on you. There are so many ways to not get in a fist fight.