100 Hard Hitting Quotes

Following is our list of hard hitting quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about that hit hard.

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Famous Hard Hitting Quotes

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. — Theodore Roosevelt

The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard — Al Davis

You have to punch hard for knockouts, and to beat me, you have to knock me out. — Khabib Nurmagomedov

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt. — Wei Wu Wei

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. — Theodore Roosevelt

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. — Warren Spahn

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. - Rod Carew

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. — Rod Carew

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches. — Roberto Duran

It ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. — Sylvester Stallone

The game honors toughness — Brad Stevens

HB-Shizzle's gonna be honest with ya, okay. To hit these bad boys, you have to have pinpoint accuracy. — Shawn Michaels

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play! — Jack Lambert

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely. — Ted Williams

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. — Herschel Walker

Short Hard Hitting Quotes

  • Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet off the ground. — Woody Hayes
  • Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. — Duke Snider
  • Always go hard and fast enough so that when you hit the ditch you can pull out the other side. — Johnny Paycheck
  • You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them. — Jimmy Demaret
  • It takes a heap of licks to strike a nail in the dark. — American Proverbs
  • Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball. — Woodie Held
  • Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out. — Nate Diaz
  • Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. — Denis Diderot
  • Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa. — Casey Stengel

Top 10 Hard Hitting Quotes

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father. — Johnny Cash

Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight. — Dana White

The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men. — Nicola Sturgeon

I’m going to hit you as hard as I can regardless of whether you touch my gloves or not. — Holly Holm

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. — Helen Wills

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar. — Rick Springfield

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard. — Bruce Lee

I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can. — Cristiano Ronaldo

We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that reset button and get pulled away from all that and see life from a different perspective. — Tony Stewart

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall. — Dizzy Dean

Hard Hitting Image Quotes

Hard hitting quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Really Hard Hitting Quotes

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great. — Matthew Perry

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit. — Steve Yzerman

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it. — Marco Rubio

Hard hitting quote Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise
Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open. — Fred Armisen

Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink. — Bob Hope

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit. — Babe Ruth

Hard hitting quote Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.
Work until you no longer have to introduce yourself.

I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me. — Jim Thome

I had to work hard and hit the books because the opportunity to play in the NFL is not really that big, so I knew I needed something to fall back on. That’s the message I want to send to those kids when I talk to them in person and let them know the most important thing is getting your education. — Jerry Rice

If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl. — Pat Burns

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely — Christine Baranski

That Hit Hard Quotes

No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win. — Sylvester Stallone

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels. — Charles Caleb Colton

That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound...I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it. — Felix Baumgartner

Hard hitting quote You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".
You must tell yourself "No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I'm going to make it".

We ought to take good care of everybody we have on the planet, but we ought to regulate the rate at which people join us. The old saying is, "It's the top of the ninth inning, and humanity has been hitting nature hard, but you've always got to remember that nature bats last." — Paul R. Ehrlich

I made hyung frustrated when I was cheering behind him. Even though I don't know if I was hit hard but it didn't hurt. People then started saying that Big Bang wasn't getting along and that Seungri was being bullied by the members, things like that. — Seungri

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit! — Tim Mccarver

Hard hitting quote Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that. — Ted Kluszewski

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another. — Jimmy Cannon

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. — Gene Tunney

I believe both the mind and the body need to be strong. We practise so hard that even if we hit a saturation point, we can't stop because that is the kind of dedication the sport requires. — Satnam Singh Bhamara

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More Hard Hitting Quotes

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. — Jason Statham

These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be. — Vivian Campbell

Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry. — Michael McCaul

If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover. — Ronnie Coleman

The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage of modern history even at the peak of the West's power (and this peak has perhaps now already been passed)... It has not been the West that has been hit by the world; it has been the world that has been hit - and hit hard - by the West. — Arnold J. Toynbee

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. — Babe Ruth

I just try to just roll with the punches. I mean, once the team pretty much starts closing out, just try to get in attack mode, and at the same time, try to find my teammates. It's kind of hard, hitting the shots I was hitting, to try and pass the ball, but you've got to figure out a way. — J. R. Smith

It's a horrible economy but I'm trying to do my part. I just bought a new shower curtain it has all the presidents on it. Do you know how hard it is to masturbate with all the presidents staring at you? And when the water hits them it looks like they're crying. — Dave Attell

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward. — Sylvester Stallone

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Swing hard in case you hit it. — Dan Marino

'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss. — Grace Slick

We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way. — Umair Haque

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard. — Theodore Roosevelt

It didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot..." "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully sorry. I honestly am. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system. — Mariah Carey

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard. — Dennis Lillee

It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. — Jonah Lomu

I’m not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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