Antoine Fuqua Quotes

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.

I have a brother; we had some good brawls.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys.

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

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.

Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.

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

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

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.

If somebody is disrespecting somebody, we should step in - even at the risk of getting slugged over the head.

The harassment and the bullying that students face is a learned behavior.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

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

I had a lot of fights in high school.

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.

The neighbor's kid was bullying my kid. Crossing the line. Threatening him all the time. I went over there to tell him what was going on. I had on flip-flops. I wasn't there to fight. It was a misunderstanding between a couple of dudes where one thing led to another.

There's an easy way to tell who won a fight, whether it occurs in a ring or in a schoolyard. Watch it with a second-grade boy and ask him the winner. He'll always know. If he doesn't know, the fight wasn't worth watching.

I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.

People are mean to each other.