Ralph Macchio Quotes

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

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

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

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

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

Don’t hit until you have to, but when you do hit, hit hard.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I'm not a magician.

An aggressor will always push forward and do more until he meets resistance. We've seen that time and time again over history.

I have one way of fighting: I'm going to come after you, put hands on you, and knock you out.

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.

I do not want to get hit in the face for real. I'll get mad.

I got into a lot of fights. Then I started knocking people out, and they stopped.

When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

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.

Lesnar is a bully. I'd hurt him and show him that he couldn't hurt me. That doesn't sound too technical, but in a fight with Brock Lesnar, you need to go after him.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

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.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

I was fortunate enough to never really be bullied. Maybe one time in middle school, but it was my fault. I had said something to someone, and they waited for me outside for a month until finally I put my dukes up and ran out. It was completely my fault.

I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his.