Rick Riordan Quotes

Americans should be treated as a naughty spaniel. If it snaps at you, hit it across the face.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

Football: War with cleats and pads.

Everybody wants to see two warriors have a good fight.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

I love fighting... It's something I think I was born to do.

It doesn't change the way we play, I'll tell you that much. If we hit a guy and get fined, we get fined.

I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.

When a man goes into the ring, he's going to war.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

If they cheat, can I shoot them?

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

Only a more savage nation can survive.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

Greeting to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. "Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.