Welsh Hard Man Quotes

“There’s no respect for older people at all today, and that’s saddening. Look at the way crime against older people has risen! You know, there’s no calling people ‘Mr’ or ‘Mrs’ now, they just call you, and it’s all ‘fuck off’ and the likes of.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Examining the background of anyone can bring skeletons to our attention; a blot on the landscape can mar all what pleases the eye. This is how Malcolm Price was perceived by those who would stand back in fear of what he was all about, yet nothing could be further from the truth!”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Malcolm Price embodies all that is Welsh, aside from the green valleys and male voice choirs. The will to win against insurmountable odds is a penchant of the Welsh, put this with a propensity to never say ‘die’ and that is what makes the Welsh so durable.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Call Malcolm Price (Pricey) a ‘chancer’ and you would be wrong. Pricey has, with premeditated determination, won his battles and hung his gloves up; his story is no less dramatic or tantalising than that of his Welsh ancestors.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Barbarianism and finesse cannot be rolled into one, Pricey defeats this theory. The barbarianism born from his fight to make it in life, his finesse brought about by his sensitivity that was deprived of him when he was a child.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Gradually, the physical cruelty and punishment beatings started and it got worse. He’d be on his knees to try to teach me how to fight, so my father made out. Whack! His hand would slap in to my face with the full force might of a 6ft 4in 18st man!”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“I remember, I walked in to the house expecting to be consoled by my father, but he yelled, ‘What, you fucking lost!’ At this stage I was still only a kid, if I lost then I was given a good kicking by him. He would suddenly turn in to King Kong and proceeded to paint the walls seven colours of shite with me!”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“If I lost a bout then I soon learned not to go home straight afterwards, I would give him time to go to the bar first. Event though I’d go to all of that trouble to escape his ranting and raving, my father would come home steaming drunk, drag me out of bed whilst I was still half asleep and beat the living shit out of me!”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“My aspirations never lay with boxing, but that’s the way I was pushed. I was still a choirboy when I started boxing because I remember I went to choir practice every Wednesday night. I missed some Wednesday nights if I was boxing and then when I missed it I’d have to tell the choirmaster why. I had a battle between the choir and boxing. When my voice inevitably broke, boxing won.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“I wanted to go in one direction, but my father forced me to follow his direction, and, somehow, he won. In one of these compelling situations, he wanted me to join the police force, but he had previously said that I didn’t have the bastard brains to pass my driving test. What a contradiction of terms?”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“My father was always suppressing the softer side of my nature; it seemed to have disappeared in the course of those boxing lessons, that’s what boxing did to me. My father took away the real me and replaced all what I could have been by imposing his brutal regime of terror upon me.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“I must have had that Bugsy Malone type of face that attracts every fucker to have a go at me.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it’s these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“My time as a doorman was quite volatile and bloody, no door registration schemes or training courses could have prepared you for what it was like back then. You didn’t have vanloads of police patrolling up and down the town then, you were lucky if you even seen a couple of bobbies in a car, never mind on foot.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“The only kicks and highs people got then were the ones dished out in nightclub fights.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Some people say you should watch a man’s feet to see if he’s ready to swing a punch, I say watch his fucking eyes!”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Someone once asked me if I knew the feeling of fear. Oh, I knew fear. Well, really speaking I never feared any fucker at that time; I’ve got to be honest. But I knew fear, the fear of losing! There was never any fear of combat! My father instilled that fear in to me and that was what drove me on to win … the fear of what was to come after you went home saying you’d lost!”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“In a dancehall in Kendal, I chased the bouncers out of the fucking dancehall, they were wearing white coats and they took these coats off, put them on the floor and jacked; Ginger Harris and me, we put the white coats on and took over for the night!”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“People keep telling me that I’m a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here’s my understanding on that, what’s a legend? I don’t really know what a legend is, I don’t even know the word. I’m not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I’m not King Arthur.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“You know, the Lord said to Adam: ‘Come forth, come forth,’ and he came fifth and won the fucking apple, do you know what I mean. If you can walk away, walk away but it’s hard to do”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“I’ve had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it’s not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“I believe in most men there is a certain amount of violence. Every man has a bit of fight in him, but some of them have to look deeper within themselves, further than most. The fight is there if you search for it; people don’t think they’ve got it at all, but they have got it, like the weakest fucking crony you could see on earth. If someone broke in to the house, I believe he’d fucking have a go rather than somebody hurt his wife and kids; it would press him to his limits. If he’s not going to defend his pitch, he’s not worth a cup of cold fucking water.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire; is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Dicing with death is one man’s cup of tea, but another man’s poison. I just didn’t fear anything.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“Today, these doormen, they wear body armour, armoured gloves, stab proof vests and all sorts; it’s totally changed, you get shot at the door you are paid to stand at, never mind getting stabbed. Druggies go away, get a gun, return and start shooting at you! Yeah, times are changing fast and there are some nice kids out there and some of them are fucking wild. I can’t see it getting better with these drug mugs because they get on them and they can’t get off them again.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man

“On this world you have the animals and they have as much right to be on this world as us; and it’s man who is the reason they are pushed to extinction. They’re killing them for their tusks and their horns, and these fucking idiots, they think claws will give them sex appeal and they get all fucking sissy on you.”
― Stephen Richards, Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man