Punching Bag Quotes:

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

- Ed Koch

source: "Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies at 88". www.usatoday.com. February 1, 2013.

topic: Respect, Believe, Self, Punching Bag

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

- Criss Jami

source: Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.20, Criss Jami

topic: Bags, Punching, Tough, Punching Bag

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

- Tim Kaine

topic: Bags, Punching, Punching Bag

The lifestyle is strenuous on the body, but it's stimulating to the senses and the mind. So there's a give and take. There are days the flights knock me out, where I feel like the human punching bag that is being on planes every other day. I think people sort of glorify it, like "Oh, you're at parties and there's booze and girls." But it's still work.

- A-Trak

topic: Girl, Party, Thinking, Punching Bag

It seems like the millennial generation is a little bit of a cultural punching bag.

- Audie Cornish

topic: Generations, Bags, Millennials, Punching Bag

Now I'm a symbol of what to be and how hard to work. I have heads of major labels say, "I wish you could teach our artists how to do it." At one point I was the punching bag of what not to be, and now I'm the model of what to be.

- Kenny Chesney

topic: Artist, Wish, Bags, Punching Bag

...she waited until she and my grandfather Anthel were just home from their honeymoon, and then sat him down and told him this: "Honey, I know you like to take a drink, and that's all right, but be forewarned that I ain't your maid and I ain't your punching bag, and if you ever raise your hand to me you'd best kill me. Because otherwise I'll wait until you're asleep; sew you into the bed; and beat you to death with a frying pan." Until he died, I am told, my grandfather was a gentle man.

- Haven Kimmel

topic: Home, Men, Hands, Frying Pans, Forewarned

First Lady Michelle Obama has posted an exercise video of her beating up a punching bag. But don't worry, Vice President Biden is going to be OK.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Exercise, Worry, President, Punching Bag

Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.

- William Greider

topic: Law, Rights, People, Punching Bag

Planned Parenthood is a gigantic bully, using Komen as its own personal punching bag,

- Karen Handel

topic: Bully, Bags, Punching, Planned Parenthood, Punching Bag

It hurts that, you know, the media's made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I don't have any feelings, and, you know, it hurts like anyone else.

- Paris Hilton

topic: Hurt, Character, Thinking, Cartoon Character, Punching Bag

Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

- Ray Davies

topic: Low Self Esteem, Punching, Bags, Punching Bag