Charles Bukowski Quotes

If you were the only person left on the planet, I would have to attack you. That's my job.

I could definitely take someone out with my bare hands.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

To me a fight is a fight, it's not a contest or a martial arts competition, it's a fight.

I could legitimately put someone in a headlock, for sure.

I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.

If a guy drew a charge on me, I tried to kick him in the balls.

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.

A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.

... and that's why I kicked your leg out of your leg!

The instructor stared at me with cold, cut-me-no-slack determination, then got into a fighting stance, holding one hand out, beckoning me. "I saw that movie too!"I said."It was like the coolest movie of all-" He launched himself at me. That was when his day really went downhill.

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better.

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.

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

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

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

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.

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

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.

I'm going to hit you as hard as I can regardless of whether you touch my gloves or not.

I'm attracted to fights.