"I'm too smart for that." Like it's really about brains. He expects that's going to be the response, so he presses on without a pause. "I keep my head down and I don't pick fights I can't win. Tends to keep me from havin' the pleasure of that kind of experience."

Pleasure. Hah. One day it'll happen, and he probably won't be ready, but until then, he'll do everything he can to prevent it from happening.