David James Elliott Quotes

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.

Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.

You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.

Kick him in the balls!

You would have to go really crazy on me before I throw a punch.

I saw my brother have an altercation one time. He hit a guy with a left hook to the body and a right hand to the chin. He not only knocked the guy out, but out of wind. That stuck with me. It scared me.

In a fight, you don't need much context for drama. You watch a fight, and that's it.

This bloke in Rome once took his camera off and cracked me round the head with it, and I'm bleeding. He was a bit bigger than me, the Italian photographer, but I thought, 'I can't back down now,' so I sort of squared up to him. Luckily, my mate jumped round and bit him on the neck.

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

Guys get hurt in fights. It doesn't mean you stop a fight every time somebody gets hurt.

I broke Steve McMahon's nose twice in one night.

He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it. When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor.

When somebody is determined to whup your ass, without regard to any concern for what is fair, you must recognize that the only alternative is to whup his ass by whatever means or methods are available.

If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

We get blows and return them.

Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

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

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.