Dan Pena Quotes

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

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!

I don't find anything comes out of getting in someone's face during an interview and screaming.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

I don't see how you could get used to people screaming in your face, and anyone who says different is lying.

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

I never yell or scream. I mean, definitely not at work. I never yell at anyone I work with.

I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot.

I don’t allow my staff to criticize each other…. Evan Rosalyn … She knows that nothing can make me madder then for her to criticize staff.

You can shut the fuck up, or you can fire me

Criticism does not constitute violence.

Since the beginning of time people have said mean things to each other in a fight, no matter what.

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

Criticize the act, not the person.