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Grenades Quotes

Intensity, sports, and film

One quote compares football, basketball, and hockey to being played with hand grenades and machine guns, capturing raw physical Intensity.

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.

Quotes by Stephen Bayley

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him...

Quotes by Simon Hoggart

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Quotes by John Leonard

I always say one of the great scenes from 'The Dirty Dozen' is where Jim Brown has to get grenades in the chimney.

Quotes by Joe Russo

Emotion Quotes

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came,...

Quotes by Janine di Giovanni

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?

Quotes by Alva Myrdal

Frequently Asked Questions

How do these grenades quotes describe rough contact sports?
One compares football, basketball, and hockey to games played with hand grenades and machine guns, contrasting them with baseball's slower, more cumulative Intensity.
Is there a famous film scene referenced among the grenades quotes?
Yes - one quote recalls a scene from 'The Dirty Dozen' where Jim Brown's character has to get grenades into a chimney, calling it one of the movie's great moments.
What lighthearted comparison involves grenades and everyday technology?
One speaker jokes that they wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at them but genuinely dreads resetting a video recorder's timer, exaggerating a minor Threat for comic effect.
Is there a quote connecting grenades to a video game hobby?
One mentions learning to play a mobile game called Fruit Ninja, hoping to beat 100 points, and references a public figure's admitted gaming habit in the same breath.
What overall picture of 'grenades' emerges from these quotes?
They use grenades mostly as a vivid metaphor for intensity, in sports, film, and even exaggerated tech frustration, rather than describing literal combat.

Another jokes that even a minor tech annoyance, like resetting a video recorder, feels like a genuine Threat next to being lobbed a grenade.