Matt Riddle Quotes

People's behavior is not always changed based on a loss. I remember my dad or my uncle used to say, 'If that guy's picking on you, punch him once in the face, and he'll never come back again.' I don't know how true that is.

When you're fighting a guy like DC, he's just coming in and pushes you. You have to push him back.

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.

You're not afraid I'll kill you tonight?" "Like I couldn't take you.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

I'm just a regular guy, but if you cross me it will get physical.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Actually punching is a mistake; a heavy hitter will cut you with one shot.

When you are attacked, you have to deck your opponent.

The more you learn about the science of boxing, the more appreciation you have for man's ability to think and perform in violent situations, and that's what interests me in film.

I know I can fight. I know I have kicks that can destroy people. Just because I haven't gotten in the ring in my career, that doesn't mean I'm not capable of crushing people.

I know if someone talked trash to me, I'd want to kick his butt.

At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.

When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

That's the secret, hit without getting hit.

If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you're going to get caught - bang - and the fight could be over.

I was never a weapons person, you're a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.

"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."

The proper course of action, when under attack, is usually to counterattack.

A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says. Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

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.

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.

Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

Maura whirled towards Blue. "Blue, if you ever see that man again, you just walk the other way." "No," Calla corrected. "Kick him in the nuts. Then run the other way.