Stephen Jackson Quotes

I don't wreck people on purpose - unless they give me a legit reason, but it takes me a lot to do that.

You would have to go really crazy on me before I throw a punch.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.

It's difficult for me to really temper my personality, but I am trying to be a little more sensible about it. If I really lose my temper, I go to my room and scream and shout, but I try not to lose it on people any more. I've never said something mean just like that. I've only said things in retaliation.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

I have a terrible temper. I have absolutely no problem with getting shouty or a bit physical. It's not something I'm pleased about and it doesn't happen very often, but it's very much there.

When you're mad at someone, it's probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

Don't think because I'm a positive dude, I'm going to always say something nice. If you come at me crooked, one too many times or if too many people came at me crooked too many times in a row, then they're going to get it. I don't always exercise that self control and I don't regret it either.

On an odd occasion, you'll still find me shouting at referees when I've become increasingly frustrated, but I've tried to control my temper.

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

If someone does something that makes me mad, well, chances are it'll probably make other people mad if I do it, too. I like to think, 'What's the meanest thing, the rudest thing I can say right now?' Or how can I completely discredit someone? That's just my mentality.

As a kid, my temper was on Cloud 10. Anything you say, I would just jump on you, you know?

Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'

I will not try to escape fights if someone tries to poke or trigger me.

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Peter had an arm around me. "Let it go, Kade," he was whispering very gently, though his arm was nearly crushing me. "Open your fists," he said, "and let go of the coals.

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!