Isaac Watts Quotes

There are times when my passion for basketball led me into confrontations that I could have handled a lot better. I've always been too confrontational, especially when I know I'm right.

I was a tough kid. I don't punch people anymore.

All people naturally hate. My kid bites people now. I didn't teach my kid to bite anybody. Kids say mean stuff. Only through love do we get this evil out of them. Only through love and structure and discipline do they not hate. The kids that hate didn't learn anything, that's the problem.

If you are affronted it is better to pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though with some dishonor, than to endeavor revenge. If you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defenders.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

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.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

I don't really yell at people.

I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

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

I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It's not something I'm pleased about and it doesn't happen very often, but it's very much there.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Don’t swear; fight!

Fighting is not something you can just turn off.

Once I argue with somebody, I'm cool; I let it pass. I'm back to playing basketball.

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

I used to stay getting in fights.

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

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.

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

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.