Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

No man has the right to initiate the use of physical force against others.

Even if the sword is taken up in self-defense, it is a fearful choice. It should be undertaken only if God commands (D&C 98:33) and after ‘a standard of peace’ has been offered three times (98:34-38).

I saw my brother have an altercation one time. He hit a guy with a left hook to the body and a right hand to the chin. He not only knocked the guy out, but out of wind. That stuck with me. It scared me.

I have one way of fighting: I'm going to come after you, put hands on you, and knock you out.

I can't force a guy to fight.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period." "Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.

Never wound a snake; kill it.

The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

Violence is my last option.

I've never been in a street fight.

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.