Quotes About Confrontation

It's not up to me. I will fight whoever the UFC puts in front of me. If it was up to me, I want to fight Dana White.

I kind of watch a guy like Aleister Black go around, and he does whatever he wants. He Black Masses whoever he wants. He beats up security guards; he threatens general managers. Tommaso Ciampa does whatever he wants.

Whoever they send me a contract for, I'll fight him.

As a competitor, you always want to go against the best, so whoever guards me, I'm hoping it's the best defender from the other team.

I just make sure I'm in good shape to fight whoever's in front of me.

Whether I like them or I don't like them, it makes no difference for me. Whoever is standing across the cage from me, that's who is going to go down.

I'm always going to be a problem for whoever is standing across from me.

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

The second guy always gets caught, and that's why you have to initiate it instead of retaliating.

Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.

It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

If someone was ever racist towards me, I would go wild.

It can be a great temptation to rest on the field and let the opponent have a play without making him pay for every inch.

I think, sometimes when we face problems and issues in our life, we have a tendency to really deny that a problem exists. Or sometimes we say, oh, it'll go away, or we can handle it. It's - you know, don't worry. I've got it covered. And a lot of times, that's not the case.

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

When you see the violence of Hollywood movies, there is a tendency that the hero is combating and confronting many people, without much harm to himself. But in my films, the hero takes a lot of hits so the very act of the hero being the one on the receiving end, makes the audience cheer and connect with him.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

'River' is all about tension and release. It's about intimacy and solace. It's about staring someone in the face and not backing down.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.