Quotes About Martial

This, it occurred to me, this was the undisciplined human community that, fired by its dull collective wit, now drove the armed nation towards it knew-not-what sort of epic martial cataclysm: a massive flailing organism with all the rectitude and foresight of an untrained puppy. --In the private letters of Albert Sloane, by permission of the Sloane family.

I've been training mixed martial arts and kickboxing so I think that will give me better overall conditioning to become a world champion.

Weichel hits very hard and is very good with the timing of his attacks.

Where regular forces provide martial muscle, the special forces are surgical and skilled, trained to be "the most potent weapons one can use": Attacking the means of production and communication—disabling factories that made the machines that fought the war, annihilating the ability to communicate troop movements over distances—was the most advanced thinking in military planning.

a battle-scarred veteran, bowed with age, would begin to remember the martial deeds of his youth and prime and be overcome as the past welled up in his wintry heart.

Call it a private demonstration of the fistic arts.

Wikkity, every time you punch a ninja…an angel gets its wings

the pankration, a no-holds-barred martial art event akin to today's kickboxing or perhaps a combination of karate and judo, in which everything was allowed, except for biting, eye-gouging, and scratching

Ninjas didn't fight like the samurai. They didn't have a set of rules to follow.

My toe as a lethal weapon!

Napoleon, that exponent of martial glory, sniffed at England as "a nation of shopkeepers." But at the time Britons earned 83 percent more than Frenchmen and enjoyed a third more calories, and we all know what happened at Waterloo.15

Aristocratic, religious, and martial cultures have always looked down on commerce as tawdry and venal.

Mark Hunt has a huge knockout power, but I will do my best to avoid that.

Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.

I'm a fighter now. I'm officially a mixed martial artist. I'm not a wrestler no more.

Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They're really an art form.

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

Tournaments, traditionally, are kind of the way martial arts contests happen.

Uppercuts always work. They're so satisfying, too.

I like Cung. He's a good guy and a good martial artist. He doesn't sell a fight very well, but he looks great and he fights hard. He definitely fills two very important requirements for building a fight.

In their minds it is the mark of an ill-prepared and amateur army to rely in the moments before battle on what they call pseudoandreia, false courage, meaning the artificially inflated martial frenzy produced by a general's eleventh-hour harangue or some peak of bronze-banging bravado built to by shouting, shield-pounding and the like[...] It made no difference. None was a match for the warriors of Lakedaemon, and all knew it.

The virtues of resourcefulness, self-composure, patience, hardiness, not to mention a sense of humour, were prized as highly as those of bravery, aggressiveness, and raw martial rigour.

Practica las artes marciales, calcula la fuerza de tus adversarios, haz que pierdan su ánimo y dirección, de manera que aunque el ejército enemigo esté intacto sea inservible: esto es ganar sin violencia.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.