Teresa Palmer Quotes

In school and college, there have been instances where I wish I knew how to defend myself.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

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

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Martial arts should be part of every girl's education.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

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

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.

My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I'll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.

The first am fight I had, I was 10 yrs. old. I didn't count, but as far as I remember, it was approximately 350 fights. It was a lot of fights.

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.' “I don’t want anything to happen to you,” he said urgently. “What you want does not matter here,” I said slowly and carefully. I hoped Dylan was sensitive enough to read between the lines, to the subtext of: Let go of me or I’ll kill you.

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

I've never been in a street fight.

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.

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.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.

A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.