Top 235 Punch Quotes

Films are artifice. We’re telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Nobody can make me cry in public. I’ll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.

Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.

The Ghost Machine album was actually written when I was going through spiritual depression, as that was written right after Motograter and just prior to Five Finger Death Punch.

You throw your best punch, otherwise don’t do it.

When I got the script for ‘Winter Soldier,’ I was so excited to see that my character finally gets to punch somebody! So I took tae kwon do three times a week. I wanted to feel like I could hold my own in a roomful of superheroes.

I was never the person to try and be the centre of attention or to talk a lot. I was always the person who, if you say something, I’d just punch you in your face. For real.

When you’re 89, dementia develops. I mean, I’ve told a story onstage, and I’m telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

You can sit there and punch me in the head for three minutes straight, but I’m gonna figure it out. I always do. I just know that about myself.

Jacare’ was really good. He had good tactics for me. I don’t feel with this style I could punch him like I would like to do.

On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

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

I’ve got a tidy chin and a decent punch. And, for people who think they can fight and are champions, I’ll make it extremely hard.

Even for natives, French satire is rarely laugh-out-loud funny. Its unspoken punch line is typically that things have gone irrevocably wrong, and the government is to blame.

Yeah, it’s kind of tongue-in-cheek. You know, Five Finger Death Punch doing ‘Mama Said Knock You Out.’ It was just really funny for us.

I practice kickboxing and Muay Thai right now, like, come on, I’ll take anyone on in the ring. You can punch me in the face all you want, and I’ll hit you back.

I’m not much for setup… punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

I’m used to throwing my body around. I’m used to taking a punch.

In music you don’t punch out at the end of the day.

I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn’t have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

I have rage and anger issues. So I get mad about stuff in real life, and then I yell about it onstage, and luckily, something funny ends up coming out. What I’ll do is tape-record it, and it will end up coming out even funnier. And I add more punch lines.

It was at a gym near Liverpool Street. I came off the street – I was just a kid – and I was just excited about getting to punch someone in the face.

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father’s. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

It’s MMA – anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.

I used to drink soda everyday, Hi-C everyday, and Hawaiian punch. That’s how I grew up in Brooklyn.

One thing I learned working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was to be on time. If the day begins at 8 A.M., be there early, get there, punch the time clock; don’t just stand there like an oaf.

If I ever saw myself saying I’m excited going to Cleveland, I’d punch myself in the face because I’m lying.

You can’t learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don’t, the only way of finding out is having it land.

As I grew older, I realised that Bruce Lee was an actor first and a martial artist second. If he wasn’t a convincing actor and didn’t have the emotion in his eyes before delivering a kick or a punch, it wouldn’t have made that much of an impact.

I’m not doing one lucky punch or spinning kick and catching somebody. I’m going to own you – not beat you – own you from the first bell to the last bell.

I was a huge boxing fan, but it’s a sport where the guys punch each other in the head. I thought maybe I shouldn’t be a fan of that anymore. Maybe I shouldn’t allow myself to cheer a sport where the head injuries are a big part of it.

If I hit Khan, he’s going down. If the punch is in the right place, he won’t get up. I can knock him out with one right hand.

I do think Briedis will be the toughest opponent I have faced in my professional career. He is 23-0, he’s a cruiserweight, and he can punch, and that makes anyone dangerous.

The heavyweight division, if you land a good, good punch in the right place, everybody is going to fall.

I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

Any punch can end a fight, so there’s no easy fight.

There are these creative shows, all on cable, that are just so daring and out there. That’s the stuff I really want to be a part of, like with ‘Sucker Punch’ and ‘Hangover 2.’ Those movies didn’t hold back. They really went for it.

McGregor has a good punch, but he cannot say that he’s the biggest puncher. MMA gloves are tiny – four ounces – so when they connect, they drop you.

We’ve never tried to be anybody else but Five Finger Death Punch.

I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

But that’s my point on intergender wrestling – I don’t like to see things where a man is going to punch a woman. I just think about the kids that are watching. I take that into consideration.

That’s the nice thing about songwriting: You don’t have to punch a clock or be in a specific place to do it. There’s really a lot of freedom to it.

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

I started writing my own symphony. I wrote about a page and a half. My mum and dad took it into music class and gave it, pleased as punch, to the teacher, Miss Montgomery. She played it on the piano for them. So I think they’re the only ones that ever heard it.

I think of all my iron shots as punches – not punch shots, but how much pressure I’m applying to the hit.

Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don’t punch one in the face.

If you stop to think, the only films that don’t include at least one punch in -the jaw are musical comedies. And even then some of those villains get brained in the middle of an aria.

I’m small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It’s kind of exciting. I don’t punch in. I don’t have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you’re lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it’s really a great job if you can work.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits’ future, spun of ‘conventional wisdom,’ is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

With a runner at second base with nobody out, you’re trying to punch somebody out. You understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.

I punch left-handed.

Whenever the Klitschkos pick opponents who punch back, things go pear-shaped for them.

Professionals don’t get writer’s block. I can always come up with the punch line.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch line.

I was a tough kid. I don’t punch people anymore.

Wall Street trading floors have long been seen as bastions of testosterone that rewarded, literally, those with sharp elbows who could throw a punch.

It’s hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you.

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

I like Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch, with whom I did a single.

Pink cocktails look quite friendly. They have an umbrella in them, some sort of fruit… they look innocent, and boy, do they pack a punch.

If someone’s personality is ‘punch an Asian grandma,’ it’s not a dialogue. I have an Asian grandma. You want to punch her? There ain’t no common ground, mama.

My thing is that if you love the sport, appreciate the sport as a whole. If you love the sport, you love the slick boxer; you love the guy who can box and punch. You love the brawler.