Top 165 Kicking Quotes

I do a lot of working out, but I haven‘t been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.

As a children‘s author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.

We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on to working with the weapons, and from then on working with the wires.

I’m given an enormous amount of freedom, within the constraints of the editorial policies of the network. One of the Quest shows started off with me doing the cancan kicking… you know, the high kick, with dancing girls. We never thought CNN would agree to that.

The thing about kicking is, it’s not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.

Field goal kicking is wildly exciting for all the wrong reasons. We regularly interrupt games to go for a ride on the equivalent of Disney‘s stomach-in-throat Tower of Terror.

It’s no good kicking progress In the teeth – there’s nothing wrong with a tractor.

At the back end of my career I’d put myself in the situations you see in changing rooms. Where there is conflict, arguments, fights, players refusing this and that, players kicking off.

Like most guys, I don’t come to beauty regimes naturally. I’m dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world.

I have to say that deporting people and calling them ‘bad hombres,’ then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet – that’s how I got here.

Congress needs to stop kicking the proverbial spending can down the road and make the hard decisions necessary to rein in our debt and balance the federal budget.

It’s always good to have friends, but it’s really about family. When you’re younger, that isn’t always clear. With friends it’s about going out and kicking it. You learn that’s not where it ends up.

The defenders make me very angry. They are kicking, or they are pinching or they say things to me that I don’t like. They try to do everything to take me out of the game. I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. This is the best answer.

The things that make me very angry are injustice and bullying. If I see someone bullying a woman or child in the street, or kicking a dog, I go completely mad.

I’m just living life and enjoying it. Alive, kicking, and doing good. That’s what a real winner is.

I personally love kicking off. It gives me another chance to get on the field.

People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

Everything that moved, I was kicking it. You can ask my mum and dad. A stone, a can, whatever.

There’s not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it’s baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes… If you’re tight, you’re not necessarily better.

I never want my kids to feel like I’m just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that’s not the kind of woman that I am.

I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said ‘Are you going to help?’ I said ‘No, six should be enough.’

When I first arrived at Leatherhead, I banned our keeper from kicking it long.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you’ll find it’s very different!

You’ve got to do your homework, and you’ve got to look at what makes people successful, what makes penalty takers unsuccessful. Ultimately, they’re the ones kicking it, so how can you transfer the pressure on to them? How can you disrupt their pattern to make it difficult?

We’ve been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we’ve been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we’ve been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once.

I like to get up and get out. Otherwise you end up kicking about, and it’s easy to flick the telly on; then before you know it, it is 11 A.M. and you haven’t done anything.

I was a disappointment to my parents before I drew my first breath. After five boys, they had been praying for a girl and were convinced their prayers would be answered. So when Dad rang the hospital from a public phone and heard about my arrival, he started kicking and punching the kiosk.

The mental aspect of kicking is the difficult part. Physically, we still have to be in shape and perform on the field, but the thing that separates the ones who make it versus the ones who don’t is definitely the mental side.

No one’s kicking down the door to fight Bernard Hopkins.

It’s very exciting, everyone wants to see Aston Villa back in the Premier League and kicking on from there. It’s great to see this club with such a rich history of being in the top flight, it’s an exciting prospect.

If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn’t leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.

At Sunderland, all the girls knew each other. I wasn’t that extroverted person to go join in. I was a little bit in my shell. But as soon as I started kicking a football, it was fine.

The good news is that you have everything you need to lift yourself off the couch to start kicking butt. You just have to decide that you’re going to do it, not that you’re too lazy to.

In 10th grade, I was kicking it with the seniors. I introduced myself, and they were like, ‘Yeah, Demetrius is cool, but we’re gonna call you Pac.’ That was it! It could be worse!

I will put the Republican establishment on my shoulders and drag them kicking and screaming back to the Constitution.

I’ve always said Reina has the best distribution out of the continental ‘keepers. His kicking out and throwing is absolutely superb. He might actually score from a kick one day, either out of his hands or he’ll come 35 yards out and have a go at goal.

If you’re a starting pitcher, the ball’s in your hands and all eyes are you. And when you’re kicking, either you missed it or you made it. So there’s a lot of parallels in that.

Voters are tired of us kicking the can down the road, because they know it’s going to land in a pothole.

Looking at 70 from 49, I don’t see it slowing me down. Maybe I’ll need a nap during the day! I’m thinking when I’m 85 I’ll settle down a bit. But I’m going to fight, kicking and screaming, every step of the way.

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

It’s still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody‘s so tired.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they’re not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

I have climbed every step of the football ladder, from kicking a ball about in Munich‘s Olympic Park to becoming a junior at Bayern, signing professional terms, establishing myself in the first team and taking the captain‘s armband.

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We’re kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don’t have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.

I don’t believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn’t pay anything, and that sort of thing.

I’m still kicking in doors to keep on going.

Yeah, I went for the TNT title and didn’t work out, but I kept kicking some butt, throwing people in ceilings and waiting my turn.

If you’re soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don’t mind kicking sand in your face.

What do you remember about Jason Robinson? His feet. Not how improved he was under a high ball or his kicking skills. Everyone remembers those feet. He could go round you in a phone box.

Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it – it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason – I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

I don’t think it works to just be mad at them – Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

You can lose a game with the kicking game faster than you can with offense and defense.

It’s quite strange, because off the field I’m quite shy, quiet, prefer to watch a bit of TV at home, but get me on the cricket field I like it all kicking off.

It was a reaction to when I was growing up, and women were supposed to be all blonde hair, gold suntan, and pink lips. It was a real black-and-white opposite of what was considered attractive. I was kicking against something I found really oppressive.

I grew up in Hockley, Birmingham. It was an environment I’ll never forget in terms of playing football on local pitches, kicking a ball around in the front garden and all over the house. It was a positive place to live, and somewhere, that gave me the right grounding for where I am today.

When I found out I was fighting Tim Sylvia it was the best day of my life. I don’t like him, I don’t respect him and I will have no problem kicking him in the head and stomping on his body. It will be fun.

I don’t like anything I see of myself on screen. I might like one scene or a few shots, but mostly I feel bad and keep kicking myself.

I do a lot of kicking practice and passing, and it has made a massive difference.

I just don’t worry about any moment. I just worry about kicking well.

The vast diversity of looks from the 80s are why we mustn’t ignore it completely, there is plenty to build a modern and relevant wardrobe around, and I am enthusiastically kicking my leg warmers in the air in its defence.

When I’m on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven’t gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual ‘rebel,’ kicking against the ‘old colonialism-imperialism paradigm‘ which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Sometimes you have to work through some things, and the mental side of kicking is definitely there.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they’re incredible at partnering with each other.

Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon – it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.

In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.

When I was growing up, I used to watch ‘Power Rangers‘ and ‘Ninja Turtles.’ It seemed like every movie had someone doing martial arts in it, so I would go around punching and kicking trees.

Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

To me, going for a tie means kicking the extra point for a tie instead of going for a two-point conversion to win.

The reason why the entire world sits up and watches World Cup football is the intensity of involvement with which people are playing a game: just kicking a ball around, but with such skill and involvement that it is like the last thing they are going to do in their life.

A lot of people gave up on us, but we kept kicking and making music.

I’m in politics to change things – if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples’ sandcastles.

I live in L.A. and love L.A., and you couldn’t drag me out of there kicking and screaming.

I was training in an old garage – just a roof. And when its snowed, it would cover the floor, so I would have to clear this first. I didn’t have a punch bag. There was no place to buy it, so I managed to get a speed ball, but it didn’t have the swivel mechanism, so I just nailed it to the ceiling and started kicking.

A lot of the music comes out of that conflict of wanting this other thing and feeling guilty about wanting it, and then it guiding me somewhere despite my kicking and screaming.

In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to apparently dominate the first show pretty well with just my voice and my hands and a shot of my boots kicking cartridges out of the way.

I allow people to create, but I’m also marshalling everybody, which is difficult for my creativity, as I’m like a referee. Everybody else is kicking a ball. It is very messy. From the mess, though, you refine what is there.

Kids in Africa start kicking a ball when they are six or seven years old, if not younger. It’s like baseball, basketball and football in America. If you’re talented, people will find you. That’s what happened with soccer. The number of academies has grown rapidly, and people are really into it.

I have male friends. I’m the type of girl that always had male friends, more male friends than female friends. So just because you see me with the person doesn’t mean that I’m kicking it with them, hanging out with them, or we’re romantically involved in any way, shape or form.

I’m Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad’s butt all day today.

I love kicking off. Just like anyone else, after a while, you’re like, ‘Man, I don’t want to practice this.’ But I love kicking off and I want to try to do it as long as I physically can do it.

Well, when I wasn’t playing with a football I used to play with ‘Star Wars‘ figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn’t kicking a ball around.

You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

I’m a forward, and I dream of a goal in the World Cup, pushing it, kicking it from outside the box, wherever. I dream of scoring at a World Cup.

People are forever knocking kicking, but it’s not easy, believe me. Ask Scott Norwood when he missed the field goal in the Super Bowl.

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.

Some actors are frightened and concentrating so hard on their own performance, you don’t feel that anything you do makes any difference. They’re just kicking a ball against a wall, so to speak.

Being old didn’t seem like an accomplishment. Everyone I knew who was old was like sick or broke. It just didn’t look appealing until I moved to L.A. and started interacting with people who were 50+ and still kicking it, having money, living large.

I’ve gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It’s a different kind of kicking, though.

I got the idea for ‘Throne of Glass‘ when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the ‘Cinderella‘ soundtrack, I thought, ‘What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn’t mind kicking butt?’

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We’re kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

I’d describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I can’t go past without going into. I just can’t resist lovely stationery.

I’ve always been very hard on myself, and I never want to get to a point where I’m like, ‘Alright, I’m kicking butt,’ but I know I need to be confident because I think that will take my game to the next level.

When we were kicking around the idea for Netflix in 1997, proving out an idea was expensive and labor-intensive. There was no Squarespace, no cloud. If you wanted a website, you had to build it from scratch. If you wanted an online store, you had to completely design it yourself.

What you’ve got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I’ve seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.

I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in ‘The Avengers,’ kicking butt.

Kicking’s kicking. Pressure’s pressure. You beat other guys just to get drafted.

Normally, I have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the festive spirit. I’m not a Scrooge. But when I was growing up, Christmas didn’t begin until mid-December.

‘Bonfire‘ was kicking around for a very long time. It was an idea I wanted to explore for a television show. Then I was given this weird gift of time when ‘Jessica Jones’ finished season one. I got really organized and just kind of banged it out, but it took a long time. It took two years to even have a first draft.

I have to admit I’ve dreamed of kicking the game-winning field goal in the Super Bowl many times. That’s the fun thing about being a kicker, you never know when it’s going to come down to your kick deciding the game.

You don’t see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!

My school was pretty tough, and I played football there so I would be accepted, to save myself a kicking.

Cinematically speaking, there’s more of a striking appeal to karate. It’s kicking and punching action. Jiu-jitsu is dudes rolling around and wrestling.

You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

SM:TV’ is where we learned our trade. It was young, we could try out new sketches every week. When we got better ratings than our BBC rival, ‘Live And Kicking,’ it was amazing.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

If India is notorious for never punishing scamsters and letting politicians get away with loot, rape, murder and worse, it is because they are part of a cozy conspiracy of silence. There are innumerable instances of how politicians as a class let each other off the hook after kicking up some dust in parliament.

I didn’t really watch a lot of Star Trek‘ as a child. I’m kicking myself now that I haven’t, but once I got the show, I started watching and became a huge fan.

I fought the social media thing kicking and screaming. It can demystify. But it’s a different world now, and that is part of what we, as humans, have developed: right, wrong, good, bad, I don’t know.

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

I prioritize in life. I like to work, I do TV shows, I do a lot of Iron Man training. I enjoy kicking back on a good night and drinking wine until I go to bed, and having fun with my friends. You just have to make time for it and keep it balanced.

You would think doing comedy would be nerve wracking, but punting and kicking footballs gets me more nervous.

I have a massive head of hair: it’s a Jew ‘fro. It’s living and kicking.

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom’s best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

I know my body needs to have the proper nutrition so that I can keep kicking at a high level. The same goes with sleep.

My family is trying to drag me kicking and screaming into the normal world. Please, I live in hotel rooms.

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

I didn’t go into this business to do action because I’m a classically trained actor. But I’m good at kicking and punching.

The hardest thing about kicking a kick at the end of the game or end of the half is not letting your excitement get the best of you.

When you talk about kicking racism out of football, people automatically assume you are talking about on the terraces and on the football field. But all racists have to do is keep their mouth shut for 90 minutes and they’re fine.

I’m definitely not going back to Italy willingly. They’ll have to catch me and pull me back kicking and screaming into a prison that I don’t deserve to be in.

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.

Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social experiment.

When you’re dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn’t see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

Wind, weather, everything comes into play when you’re in the kicking game – how far the ball is going to traveling in the air, where it’s going to travel with the wind.

As a kid, my parents told me I always seemed to play football with older people. As a boy, I always trained in the age group above, and even kicking about on the street, I’d play with the bigger ones.

After ‘Return Of The Bumpasaurus’ in ’96, I just got away from music for, like, a year. Literally, I think I produced two songs in a year. I was totally kicking it, running around.

Kicking is like a love-hate relationship. When it’s going good it’s really good. When it’s bad, it’s really tough. You just have to find the fine line between not getting too high or too low.

I like Marco Rubio. But I don’t know about as a vice-presidential candidate. He’s a nice guy, and that role requires kicking the crap out of your opponents.

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn’t kicking down the door; it’s building your own.

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

I’m not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity – or that’s the hope, at least – a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it’s actually kicking human frailty while it’s down – I’m not sure.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

I’ve said it before: War brings out the patriotic bullies. In World War I, they went around kicking dachshunds on the grounds that dachshunds were ‘German dogs.’ They did not, however, go around kicking German shepherds.

I still look good. I’m trippin’, but people tell me that all the time. So check it out, I’m 63, and still kicking. I’ve been putting records out every year.

You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

We learned that kicking down doors to free children from carpet factories isn’t enough to stop child labour – we had to tackle the underlying poverty in which their families lived, through education.

It’s tough, but I have to remember that this is my passion and what I love, and that’s how I keep the nerves from kicking in.

It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked.

My dad played guitar, and so there were always guitars kicking around the house that I was never allowed to touch. My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.

Striking isn’t just about kicking and punching. It’s far more complex than that. It’s also about timing and range.

My peripheral vision has been severely limited because of my diabetes, which means I can see just fine looking straight ahead. But if I am at a function with lots of people, I am constantly bumping into people – even kicking them!

Playing in America led to me getting a chance. Kicking around in the non-leagues I was going nowhere so I’m glad I did it.

I played soccer my whole life. I’m kind of a heavier person, and whenever you kick and punt, no matter how limited an activity it is, my brain and shoulders are going to be OK because I didn’t play a tough guy position, but my knees took a lot of wear and tear from the kicking.

SoundCloud was my first break I guess. I got a little bit of a following.That whole bedroom producer genre was kind of kicking itself into gear, and SoundCloud was becoming more of a hub for producers at the time.

Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women’s fiction is alive and kicking.

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

My favorite kick is the roundhouse. I’m very capable of kicking a tall person in the head with a roundhouse.

I don’t mind talking about the Dixie Chicks, because I feel like it’s still alive and kicking.

I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing.

Frankly, kicking was just an extra thing that I did. I guess most people remember that I was also a quarterback. But how many people remember that I was a linebacker and a cornerback when I broke into pro ball with the Chicago Bears? I was around when you had to go both ways.

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I’ve ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

Kicking field goals is frustrating to me.

There is a severe shortage in our country of political parties where internal democracy is alive and kicking.

I don’t think I started kicking a ball until I was six or seven. Horses were my first love, so I was occupied with that.

I think the most important asset to kicking is being mentally headstrong.

Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

I have had acupuncture regularly, and I engage in visualization, which is actually an actor’s tool, visualizing myself kicking out the cancer, making up scenarios.

I wake up, and I’ll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the while I’m doing that, I’m kicking myself mentally.