Malik Yoba Quotes

Don’t swear; fight!

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.

I do not want to get hit in the face for real. I'll get mad.

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.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

I used to stay getting in fights.

I know if someone talked trash to me, I'd want to kick his butt.

I will not try to escape fights if someone tries to poke or trigger me.

Holly, I understand that you are upset because Gemma pulled down your ants, but why did you think pouring motor oil inside her backpack is the way to solve the problem?

You can't go fighting everyone that's harsh towards you.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

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

Fighting is not something you can just turn off.

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

I've always been a dominant and violent person.

I don't wreck people on purpose - unless they give me a legit reason, but it takes me a lot to do that.

When someone unloads on me, I keep my head moving; I don't freeze. I punch back with them. The occasion never gets to me. Not one bit. I enjoy it.

Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'

I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.