Quotes About Punching

#1. There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

Cus D'Amato

#2. Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?" He lifted my bandaged hand. Underneath all the game, my knuckles throbbed from punching Jules. Patch kissed each finger, taking his time, keeping his eyes glued to mine.
"What good is a body if I can't have you?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#3. I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.

Al Sharpton

#4. Oh, so now you're abusing the crippled kid, huh?" Kenji takes a moment to steady himself before punching Adam in the arm. "Save your angst for the battlefield, bro. You're going to need it.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.

Rae Earl

#6. Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

Richard Dawkins

#7. I didn't want to be known for punching out movie stars.

Robert Maillet

#8. Oh, yes, that feels so good," I moaned, and instead of punching Ian, pulled him closer.
Breath tickled my neck as he laughed. "I know. I'm truly gifted.

Jeaniene Frost

#9. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

Laura Kightlinger

#10. With that I turned into a punching, struggling, kicking psycho redneck zombie bitch.

Diana Rowland

#11. Several witnesses describe seeing an altercation in the car between Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson. It was described as wrestling, tug-of-war. Several other witnesses described Mr. Brown as punching Officer Wilson while Mr. Brown was partially inside the vehicle.

Robert P. McCulloch

#12. I plan, you do the punching people in the face part.

Amy Tintera

#13. Oookay, but for the record, I'm not really thrilled about punching some Lighter's junk.

Shelly Crane

#14. Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.

Lee DeWyze

#15. Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.

Keanu Reeves

#16. I just had to stay cool. Zen. No punching in the face. Punching would not be Zen.

Ilona Andrews

#17. Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

Donald Rumsfeld

#18. I held up my hands. 'I thought you could use a punching bag.' See, this is me, the new and improved Nick Pardee, available to girlfriends and crazy people in their time of need.

Tessa Gratton

#19. Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.

Emeraude Toubia

#20. Jacob: I kissed Bella ... She broke her hand ... Punching my face ...

Stephenie Meyer

#21. Sometimes life just kept punching you in the teeth, no matter how many times you got up.

Ilona Andrews

#22. Is it just me,' Kipps said, 'or does that boy need punching?'
'It's not just you.

Jonathan Stroud

#23. Ohhh, OH no you didn't!" he screams. "Nobody touches the TERRY!" Then he starts punching himself in he face. This kid really is crazy! I may not even have to fight him. He's doing it for me, and I'm winning!

Brent Crawford

#24. Her death had a powerful impact on me I suppose because it was such an obvious shock, like watching someone for hours through a telescope advance towards you, fist extended with the intention of punching you in the face. Even though I saw it coming it still hurt when it eventually hit me.

Russell Brand

#25. All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.

Laila Ali

#26. When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing.

Brian McClellan

#27. I don't regret saying something," I said as he pulled down the street.
He glanced at me."Well, I regret not punching him in the face."
My lips twitched."Sorry. I couldn't let that happen."
"I'm sure I'll get another opportunity," He muttered, squinting out the windshield.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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

Ed Koch

#29. Yes!" said Fang, punching the air. "Freaks rule.

James Patterson

#30. If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.

Tom Flynn

#31. When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

James Frey

#32. She can't keep hurting you and using you
like an emotional punching bag. It's messed up. How many times do you have to forgive her before she destroys you?

Rebecca Donovan

#33. They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

George Foreman

#34. We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

Josh Turner

#35. You make me want to vomit, and you're lucky we're in a public place or there's a really good chance I would be punching you repeatedly in the face right now.

Jay Crownover

#36. Life with through punches at you and sometimes knock you down. Learn to take the hit ,but more importantly learn to get back up and keep punching every single day!

Jerry Gladstone

#37. The idea of parts of the body public fighting each other was like the idea of a man's punching himself in the face. It was a physical blasphemy that suited this era as an index of how far it had all gone.

Paul Cornell

#38. One of Calla's eyebrows momentarily considered punching the woman. She said, "Why didn't you just leave her?"

From the hall, Ronan shot a superior look at Gansey.

Maggie Stiefvater

#39. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won't punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.
(Or a badger.)

Laini Taylor

#40. If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

Dominic Monaghan

#41. I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.

Gabe Newell

#42. And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve.

Molly Ringle

#43. Hey, nice landing!" Addie called, and I turned to see her standing next to her shuttle, grinning.
I laughed and shrugged my shoulders. "They're all still alive!"
"Sort of a low bar you set for yourself, huh?" Beth asked, playfully punching my shoulder as I helped her out of the shuttle.

Amy Tintera

#44. Even though the situation was in no way under the control of this man, I felt like punching him and sending him from his chair - kicking him until he awoke.

M. Amanuensis Sharkchild

#45. Electricity is life but electricity is an invisible fist punching up your spine, knocking your brains right out of your skull.

Ray Robinson

#46. Maybe knowledge is power, but it ain't nearly as as satisfying as punching some smart ass in the chops.

Lois Greiman

#47. Frank took my hand and pressed it to his lips. Considering that my knuckles were bruised from punching him in the face, it should've come with the romantic gesture of the year award. Or a restraining order.

Nicole Castle

#48. I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history.

Colman Domingo

#49. Many Karate teachers teach a watered down style - no hip action and no depth of punching - so it is easy to say that these teachers have no depth to their knowledge. You are what your teacher is, and if he knows a lot, you should be able to demonstrate this knowledge.

Higa Yuchoku

#50. He apologized. For what he did with Lia." "You can apologize for punching someone, but it doesn't stop the bruising.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#51. I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

Erykah Badu

#52. I've got to stay awake,' she said, punching her cheeks until the roses came. 'There isn't time to sleep, I'd look consumptive, I'd sag like a tenement, and that wouldn't be fair: a girl can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.

Truman Capote

#53. I'm on my feet, pacing around the room, punching a fist into my palm, which I stop doing when I realise how drama queen it feels.

Eoin Colfer

#54. Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they're being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

Pauline Kael

#55. I was brought up Catholic. My mom brought us to mass every Sunday - short for 'massive head trauma' that you get from your mother punching you in your little nine-year-old head every minute because you can't sit still for anything that's boring.

Richard Jeni

#56. You are not punching them; it is your going into kamae that
punches them.

Masaaki Hatsumi

#57. I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.

Katheryn Winnick

#58. Gotta have a head like a wrecking ball, a spirit like one of them punching clown dummies that always weeble-wobbles back up to standing. This takes time. Stories need to find the right home, the right audience. Stick with it. Quitting is for sad pandas.

Chuck Wendig

#59. My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.

Joe Frazier

#60. When somebody is ignoring, I ignore him too. When somebody is kicking or punching me I also do that, but with the differences that I do that on him. The rule is called Equal, but it's famous with "quits"!

Deyth Banger

#61. So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#62. Hey!' she said, punching Hanna's arm hard. 'Where have you been, bitch? I've been looking all over for you!

Sara Shepard

#63. Good food makes me want to hit a punching bag like, Dat's right motherfucker. You done did it there.

Eddie Huang

#64. When a manic-depressive personality begins to slide deeply into a depressive period, he had written, one symptom he or she may exhibit is acts of self-punishment: slapping, punching, pinching, burning one's self w/ cigarette butts,

Stephen King

#65. In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

Nick Frost

#66. And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

Ethan Hawke

#67. I know what you mean. I usually take it out on my older sister. You can lease her for a weekend or something if you need a psychological punching bag. I'll even give you a discount.

Hayden Thorne

#68. Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

Tama Janowitz

#69. Now aren't you glad I made you take a bath?" Bill asked. "One less bottle of eau de reekette punching holes in l'ozone.

Lauren Kate

#70. That's pretty hot," he said.
"Punching me in the eye?"
"Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports."
"I'm sure you are.

Richelle Mead

#71. I heard him tell our parents, "She said no," and my melancholy deepened. Mom and Dad and Chris were downstairs together, merrily strapping on nunchucks and punching each other in the face, while here I was, gloomy and alone.
And whose fault is that? I asked myself.
Oh, shut up., I replied.

Lauren Myracle

#72. I have tormented some sweet men. Broken hearts and shattered dreams.
Men are punching bags, and I have a hell of a right hook.

R.K. Lilley

#73. No feeling is wrong. You have the right to your feelings. However, you do not need to wallow in them, and you do not have the right to act them out. The world hasn't suddenly become your punching bag or litter tray.

Anna Valdiserri

#74. I stood up for myself, reminding Lucas that I was his partner, not his punching bag.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#75. You don't think that perhaps you have anger management issues?"
"Punching people is managing my anger.

Suzanne Wrightt

#76. Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

Jack Johnson

#77. Aidan was nowhere to be seen. She pictured him glowering in the shadows somewhere, breaking sticks or punching walls, or something equally useless.

Jo Treggiari

#78. Maybe there's a computer down in the basement," she said, "and we need to keep punching the numbers in.

Peter Clines

#79. Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

Ray Davies

#80. Evans was punching the shattered windshield out and thinking he was some helluva hero.

Mark Henwick

#81. Truth: I'd rather leave it
to chaos, nature's oddball math;
why try drunk punching through
a losing brawl?

Danny Jacobs

#82. I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.

Alan Alda

#83. I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

Jack Kirby

#84. us not forget Charlie Watts punching Mick Jagger after Jagger called him "my drummer." "You're my singer," Watts snarled, before adjusting his cuffs, and walking away.

Caitlin Moran

#85. My mom always tells me that if I feel like punching someone, first I have to say something nice to them. Out loud. If I still feel like punching them, they probably deserve it.

Kasie West

#86. I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

Soledad O'Brien

#87. What I'm putting forth," he said, "is that the four of us make some memories, become fast friends and abandon starchy old mind-sets about monogamy. The world's gone crazy. Let's do the same."
"The answer is no," Dad said. "And I'm surprised I'm not punching you.

George Saunders

#88. Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

Susan Sontag

#89. Speed is more than just how fast you can thrust your foot into the other guy's stomach. Whether you're punching, kicking, blocking, or moving your entire body, other factors are of equal importance, and they too must be trained. ~Perception speed ~Reaction speed ~Movement speed ~Recovery speed

Loren W. Christensen

#90. Boxing is a science. You don't just walk into a gym and start punching. Fighters are born with differences in physical ability, but you also see a big difference in their skills. That's the trainers influence at work.

Eddie Futch

#91. It hurts that, you know, the media's made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I don't have any feelings, and, you know, it hurts like anyone else.

Paris Hilton

#92. Among wilderness survival tips, punching a wild animal in the face probably isn't on a checklist.

Kat Kruger

#93. The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

#94. I can't risk getting hurt. I have to be smart about what I'm doing. But the competitor in you wants to try it, wants to see how you would do. But at the same time, after a few rounds I'm so tired, and my arms are so tired after punching. It's a whole different monster.

Cullen Jenkins

#95. First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden is going to be OK.

Conan O'Brien

#96. Frankly, if her face wasn't so cute, I would most certainly have been punching it.

Wataru Watari

#97. Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.

George S. Patton

#98. That was the trick- to keep punching, no matter what.

Scott Westerfeld

#99. Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal.
"Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed.
"Yes."
"One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off."
Vimes shrugged. "He's got a very pointed look if I don't use the sugar tongs, I know that.

Terry Pratchett

#100. Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.

Philippe Petit