Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

Violence is not funny.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

When you've got your man down, rub him out.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the blood flowed profusely from his wounds.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

I’m going to be beaten and unless some change takes place, badly beaten.

A cleaved head no longer plots.

Take your time and strike a man so that he feels he is dying.

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.

When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that.

I was probably about 13 or 14. I got pulled from a rope swing and some boy kicked me in the head and fractured my skull. It was a horrible time.

I've had both my eye sockets crushed, I've been set on fire, uh, that was not fun, I've torn a pec, torn biceps.

I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.

I'm not in the business to get hit and take concussions.

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.

You don't brag about putting someone in hospital. It's absolutely horrible.

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

I've had more than 200 stitches taken in my head.

I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.