I’m really impressed with Sheamus. The thing about Sheamus is he’s very, very physical. He’s a brawler. He’s strong, he’s hungry, and if he’s smart, he’ll learn to avoid my right fist.
I can do a really loud monkey call. I can put both my legs behind my back. And I can stick my fist in my mouth.
And I’m always surprised when people have seen ‘The Foot Fist Way’, so when people bring that up, I’m always surprised that’s reached other people besides my immediate friends.
Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
I have a stunt double. His name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously – it’s actually been recorded by National Geographic. He calls it the Hammer Fist. And he’s my stunt double! He makes me look awesome.
As a fighter, you know when you connect with a really good shot because you feel the impact on your fist.
For me, playing hurt was a battle in itself: a mind-over-matter head game I refused to lose. Often, I was barely able to bend my knees or elbows, flex my feet, make a fist, bend forward or turn my head. Heck, it hurt to blink.
For ‘Luke Cage,’ of course, I was familiar with Power Man and Iron Fist. I read the comics. That was really more stuff that you read for fun. It wasn’t that you read either of those comics for profound moments, although they have profound moments.
Jody Hill, who I created ‘Eastbound And Down’ and ‘Fist Foot Way’ with, was my best man at my wedding.
You’re telling me Beyonce is a revolutionary? Thirty years ago, you had those guys who raised their fists at the Olympic games, and they paid 30 years of their lives because of that gesture. And you’re telling me a superstar who put one fist in the air is a revolutionary? But that’s the superficiality of this time.
Honestly, it was just tiring going straight from one show to the other. I filmed ‘Iron Fist,’ and then I had a two week break, and I went straight into ‘The Defenders.’
I’ve never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
I grew up in the northernmost parts of New Jersey, known more for lush forests and old farmland than industrial wastelands and fist pumping.
Fighting is fighting. You close your fist and it’s all pretty much the same.
The main difference to me with Lyft is the sense of community and social experience. The pink mustache, fist bump and strict screening have fostered a strong sense of community with many stories of new friends, discovered jobs, and even some Lyft hugs after a tough break up.
My family has been in the wrestling business for over 70 years. I’m a third-generation wrestling promoter, and years ago, when I fist started, there was a wrestling audience in the United States in 22 regions.
I did my fist show, ‘Godspell’, in my freshman year of high school.
That’s when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
He who turns the other cheek will get hit with the other fist.
I know how to use my fist, but only to punch people.
You don’t want to be an iron fist all the time; at least I don’t. I like to pick my spots and have a reason for everything that I do.
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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