Carl Andre Quotes

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

I don't ship anyone. I really don't. I'm not a shipper, but I'm all for men duking it out for a chick.

In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.

I can throw out any man alive.

Let's just say I'm a physical guy.

I think it's very much a men's thing to be able to have that fantasy to kill the beast.

I've had hundreds of challenges at Traveller gatherings. They get a few beers in them, and they start thinking they are Tyson or Ali: throwing punches, swearing, and jumping around with their big fat bellies. I'd love to knock a few of them out.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

This is a man's sport. I fight.

I like to get down there and get physical. I like to get down there and try to show my strength, try to be a macho man.

I grew up in a rough neighborhood, so I fought a lot. Even when I was wrestling, if I lost a match, I always thought, That guy would never beat me in a fight.

In southern culture, possession of a gun became kind of a sign of manhood, not just because of slaves but other white men. If you had a gun, you're not going to push me around. You know, I'm not one of those guys you can kick in the face.

It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

It took a long time for me to walk. I was falling down all the time. But I ended up being one of the dangerous men, who broke so many people's noses, which is bad.

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.