Quotes About Combatant

I'm not a boxer.

There's nothing better to challenge yourself against than a heavy-handed striker like John Lineker. But, I mean, he's a brawler. That's it. He's a brawler. He gets sucked into those brawls.

Out of a total of 683,149 combatant troops recruited in India between August 1914 and November 1918, 349,688—about sixty percent—came from the Punjab.

If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

If the 'enemy combatant' cases of Padilla and Hamdi present a clash between liberty and security, each side champions one while giving short shrift to the other.

Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

As late as 1883, when dueling of all kinds had almost been eradicated elsewhere, a rapier duel between a soda-water seller and a catfish dealer lasted eighty-three minutes before either combatant drew blood.

And surely the ultimate point of weapons training was to kill humans.

He now knew that war was not at all like culling deer, and the last one, with the man so close, had been the worst. The shock on the enemy's face as the arrow halted his run would haunt him always. Robert Reid – White Light Red Fire

others helped Austria-Hungary carry out a ruthless occupation of Serbia. When the war ended, that tiny country would have proportionately the highest death toll, military and civilian, of any combatant, nearly one out of five of its people.

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

The guy I saw was an ex-Marine.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever - I don't care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.

What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)

Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,Thou dreadful Ajax; that th' appalled airMay pierce the head of thy great combatant.Shakesp. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum; but took time to consider of it till next day.Clarendon. Does neither rage inflame, nor fear appal,Nor the black fear of death that saddens all.Pope.

En pleine bagarre, vous vous en tenez au strict nécessaire, à savoir étriper l'adversaire en faisant en sorte que ce dernier ne vous arrache pas les bras pour vous assommer avec.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. I

Uhtred of Steapa - He might be dumb as a parsnip but he knows how to fight.

There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.