Ronda Rousey Quotes

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

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

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

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.

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

No doubt it requires two to fight. But both of them need not necessarily be fighters. It is, all the same, a fight, even if one goes on beating and the other gets beaten. There is no guarantee that others would behave properly with us even if we remain peaceful and cordial with them.

We are not, as a race, so much disposed to fight and kill one another as our red brethren.

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.

I can't force a guy to fight.

When I was younger, I was an aggressive fighter but I'm growing into someone who understands we don't have to answer things with violence.

Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

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.

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

I don't fight people for fun.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.