Richelle Mead Quotes

There is a machismo about an American male who is robust, athletic, able to build things, and he takes care of stuff. And it's a point of pride.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.

I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism.

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.

Our valiant legionnaires and Regulares have shown what it is to be a man to the reds and their women who have finally known real men and not militiamen.

All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.

Anyone who says they are a hard man - they aren't.

I like guys who, no matter what, are men.

Guys like scars! They're like war wounds.

A man's man is respectful, he's honorable, he's loyal, he's sensitive, he's strong, he's tough, he's well-groomed, he has a sense of humor - and he takes care of himself and his lady.

When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.

I like to think of myself as a tough kid.

I was playing tackle football in the street at five years old. Always being physical. Always being tough, just like a man's man. It was just always about being tough.

I don't need a huge pit bull to tell me I'm tough.

I'm an alpha male - what else can I say?

My father was a man's man and was always respected for being a straight shooter. My dad always had an amazing sense of calm about him.

If somebody has done something to disrespect you as a man, I feel like I have to protect myself.

It's very unusual for me to take a punch.