Charles Barkley Quotes

I'm a very aggressive person. I have slapped people when they have tried to grab me or my friends. I have reported people to the cops.

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

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

If they [political opponents] go around lying about your record, insulting your job performance, your wife and your patriotism, you ought to double up your fist and knock the crap out of them.

This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

I've gotten punched in the face before by Cena. His hands are like rocks.

I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.

If you hit me, I'm gonna try to shoot the ball and get two free throws.

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.

I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

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.

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.

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.

Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

I've never hit anybody who hasn't clocked me two or three times.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

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.

I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.