Jeff Cooper Quotes

If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.

If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

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

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

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Why are we going after those who were not going after us?

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

When a person attacks, it's rough.

That's the secret, hit without getting hit.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

Beat him, eat him and get out.

We get blows and return them.

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

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.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

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

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.

I have a saying - 'You treat me good, I'll treat you better. You treat me bad, I'll treat you worse. And when in doubt, knock 'em out.'

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.