Welsh Hard Man Quotes

#1. Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything.

Stephen Richards

#2. Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.

Stephen Richards

#3. Obviously it's hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!

Stephen Richards

#4. Barbarianism and finesse cannot be rolled into one, Pricey defeats this theory. The barbarianism born from his fight to make it in life, his finesse brought about by his sensitivity that was deprived of him when he was a child.

Stephen Richards

#5. Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name 'Malcolm Price' was used.

Stephen Richards

#6. I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.

Jason Aldean

#7. I never knew any of these people who were using my name, if I had a fiver for every time my name was used for protective purposes by these people to ward off trouble then I'd be a millionaire many times over by now.

Stephen Richards

#8. Gradually, the physical cruelty and punishment beatings started and it got worse. He'd be on his knees to try to teach me how to fight, so my father made out. Whack! His hand would slap in to my face with the full force might of a 6ft 4in 18st man!

Stephen Richards

#9. My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that's what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.

Stephen Richards

#10. At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.

Stephen Richards

#11. The only kicks and highs people got then were the ones dished out in nightclub fights.

Stephen Richards

#12. Some people say you should watch a man's feet to see if he's ready to swing a punch, I say watch his fucking eyes!

Stephen Richards

#13. All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

Vivienne Westwood

#14. The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire; is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation.

Stephen Richards

#15. In a dancehall in Kendal, I chased the bouncers out of the fucking dancehall, they were wearing white coats and they took these coats off, put them on the floor and jacked; Ginger Harris and me, we put the white coats on and took over for the night!

Stephen Richards

#16. Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Christopher McDougall

#17. A sexually fulfilled husband will do anything for you.

Kevin Leman

#18. ... to a Prince who wants to do great things, it is necessary to learn to deceive.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#19. Malcolm Price embodies all that is Welsh, aside from the green valleys and male voice choirs. The will to win against insurmountable odds is a penchant of the Welsh, put this with a propensity to never say 'die' and that is what makes the Welsh so durable.

Stephen Richards

#20. I must have had that Bugsy Malone type of face that attracts every fucker to have a go at me.

Stephen Richards

#21. There was just one cheeky bastard in the club that night and it started World War Three. There was a bloodbath down there, they all got locked up, and the police dogs didn't need feeding for a week after that.

Stephen Richards

#22. As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road.

Stephen Richards

#23. Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it's these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.

Stephen Richards

#24. There's no respect for older people at all today, and that's saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there's no calling people 'Mr' or 'Mrs' now, they just call you, and it's all 'fuck off' and the likes of.

Stephen Richards

#25. One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own.

Stephen Richards

#26. Remember, I was only in to fighting; I wasn't a high-ranking underworld figure selling the Crown Jewels! I wasn't the Merthyr Mafia and I had no connections with the goings on of petty criminal matters.

Stephen Richards

#27. You know, the Lord said to Adam: 'Come forth, come forth,' and he came fifth and won the fucking apple, do you know what I mean. If you can walk away, walk away but it's hard to do

Stephen Richards

#28. Call Malcolm Price (Pricey) a 'chancer' and you would be wrong. Pricey has, with premeditated determination, won his battles and hung his gloves up; his story is no less dramatic or tantalising than that of his Welsh ancestors.

Stephen Richards

#29. These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off.

Stephen Richards

#30. The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.

Stephen Richards

#31. I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!

Stephen Richards

#32. I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

Kate Mulgrew