“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.”
Source: 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.”
Source: 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!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Most of the pubs had barred Des, but he came in to the Tiger bar and he points to me and says, ‘And you, out! I want you by the back of the car park.’ So I obliged him and proceeded to kick the poor cunt all around the car park, he ended up in hospital for a week! Eventually, when he came out of hospital he said that I was the best thing that had happened to him, I’d cured him!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“At that time, there was only one thing better that a good fight, and that was having a good fight and getting paid for it.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“Obviously it’s hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider’s head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy’s head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“These near death escapades didn’t put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn’t stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn’t let past experiences put me off.”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man
“The world is my church, people my divine.”
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“As much as Merthyr is a fighting town, these people also have hearts of gold. I worked all over Monmouth, and then the Aberfan disaster happened! That was a very emotional episode in my life. I never want to see anything like that ever again! In my opinion, the tip should have been moved well before the rain got in to it, and the old tip came rolling down the hillside on the school and the walls just caved in!”
Source: Street Warrior: The True Story of the Legendary Malcolm Price, Britain's Hardest Man