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Quotes About Fair fight

Cowboys of the Old West were workers, not gunslingers, and they did not go looking for trouble. But when trouble found them, the rules were unequivocal. If someone was killed in a fair fight, that was not murder, it was an incident. On the other hand, shooting an unarmed or fleeing man ~ even if he was a sworn enemy ~ was strictly forbidden, and transgressors were quickly brought to frontier justice.
~ James P. Owen
Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?
~ Carol Moseley Braun
I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut your face.' 'Exactly my point.
~ Derek Landy
His eyes were closed, which made it not much of a fair fight, but those are always my favorite kind.
~ Lee Child
I don't like to use the words batting or fighting when talking about cancer. It suggests that there are only two outcomes: winning and losing. If you don't get well, then you are a loser. If you have decided to stop treatment, you are giving up. That's nonsense....It is not a fair fight. Not even close. It is simple biology. You get treatment and you get better. Or you don't. And neither outcome is an indication of your strength as a person.
~ Alex Trebek
You killed him, remember?" "That was a fair fight." "It was only to first blood." "I only hit him once." "You decapitated him." "There was a lot of first blood.
~ Anthony Reynolds
I want you to know that I fought you fairly. Equal to equal. I could have used my powers against you, but I didn't. (Stryker) Should I warm to oven and bake you a batch of hero-cookies? (Zephyra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dat lijkt me nauwelijks een eerlijk gevecht,' zei de baron. Maddie deed expres alsof ze hem niet goed begreep. 'Ik weet het,' zei ze. 'Maar ik beloof hem niet heel erg pijn te doen.
~ John Flanagan
Taya has never beaten me in a fair fight one-on-one. Taya has always needed a stipulation or a special guest referee or something that puts the odds in her favor.
~ Tessa Blanchard
In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.
~ Scott Lynch
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
~ Arthur Miller
For to kill a man in a fair fight, is to prove that you are superior to him in strength or skill; and to justify the deed, you must assume that the right of the stronger is really a right.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
~ Steinbeck John
But risking a fair fight – not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of the 'don't hold me back' while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight—not so easy. That's why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
I heard a warning, deep within - we usually do , when something worse than we can imagine is stalking us, and set to pounce. Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut your face.' 'Exactly my point.
~ Derek Landy
Republicans aren't cowards. Many will take the side of climate principle in a fair fight. But it is asking a lot of them to take a principled stand on climate when they don't see one corporate friend ready to help them.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
He knew that once you bested anybody like Mr. Scratch in fair fight, his power on you was gone. And he could see that Mr. Scratch knew it too.
~ Stephen Vincent Bent
Grampa Trouble always said the only fair fight was the one you lost.
~ Mike Shepherd
I want you to know that I fought you fairly. Equal to equal. I could have used my powers against you, but I didn't. (Stryker) Should I warm to oven and bake you a batch of hero-cookies? (Zephyra)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is precisely because the dream of economic equality is so popular, and so difficult to defeat in a fair fight, that the shock doctrine was embraced in the first place.
~ Naomi Klein
Professional fights between men and women send the message that violence between men and women is appropriate. In most homes, that's not a fair fight, which is why I'm against intergender boxing.
~ Thomas Hauser