Brian Ortega Quotes

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

By the time I was in high school, I was big enough to beat the hell out of everybody who said anything to me. And I learned how to blend in. All of that made me a very confident man. A very aggressive man. I developed it to survive.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

The older kids, if they wanted something from you, whether it was cash or sports equipment, they would just take it. My older brothers used to say, 'If someone tries to take something from you, never give it to them.' So we fought all the time.

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

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.

I never felt out of control. It was just the way I lived my life. I was the neighborhood bully.

If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it's best to go for the biggest one. That way you won't have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

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

I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

The whole key to a fight is throwing the first punch.

New York City is a very tough place. I'm tough, too. When people give me a punch in the nose, I react by getting even tougher.

I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.

A boy on the team, who shall remain nameless, constantly picked on me during practice. I bided my time, and when I had the chance to wrestle him, I took every advantage I could. I bent fingers, dug my nails into his skin and rammed my elbow into various, tender, parts of him. I basically beat him down in front of the whole team.

I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.

All the kids at school would bully me and always wanted me to fight them. I never did, but if I wanted to, I totally could.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ I fight for the things I believe in, with all the weapons at my disposal and try to leave the other man dead so that I don't get nailed to a cross or any other place.