Thomas Keneally Quotes

I wasn't a bad kid. I was a good kid. But I had gotten in a lot of fights 'cause in the neighborhood I grew up in, that wasn't equated with bad behavior almost. I mean, we'd fought like it was another game. 'You wanna play stick ball today?' 'Nah, let's go fight.'

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

I never turn down a fight.

I cannot remember a time when I was not getting into fights.

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.

There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack.

When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

To be a soldier one needs that special gene, that extra something, that enables a person to jump into one on one combat, something, after all, that is unimaginable to most of us, as we are simply not brave enough.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

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.

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

I am Irish, so I do like a good fight every now and then.

I'm not like hurting by any means, but I'm not really, you know, let me say, I'm not really cool with doing fighting just to break even.

I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

I definitely got into a lot of fights when I was a kid. I never understood it. I was one of those quiet kids. I never picked with no one.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Fighting was the only way I felt self-worth, with people thinking I was the best.

I ask for the fights. Sometimes I get them. Sometimes I don't.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.