Tony Danza Quotes

There has been two awful fights in town this week. You don't know anything about such fighting at home as I speak of; this is no place for women and children, yet, although they all say it is so quiet here... if a man fights in Kansas and gets whipped, he never says anything more about it. If he does, he will get whipped for his trouble.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

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

I am Irish, so I do like a good fight every now and then.

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.

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.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.

I used to fight every week. Me and my friends used to fight each other, bare knuckle, but then we would be friends that same day. That was our entertainment, though.

I had a lot of fights in high school.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

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.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.

When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.

Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

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

Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.