Quotes About Combat

Su oponente era alguien que sabía que, a menudo, lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior.

A menudo, lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior.

Lo que nos amenaza de verdad y cuesta más de combatir es algo que procede de nuestro interior. El impacto y el dolor de una pesadilla pueden ser mucho mayores que el de un puñetazo. Asimismo, a veces lo que duele no es tanto ese puñetazo como la emoción tras él...

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

The rules of fair play do not apply in love and war.

Pugilism is the silliest of all combat arts. It consists of taking the human hand, with its multitude of tiny, frangible bones, and smashing it against the human skull, a most unyielding target.

Tennis really is single combat, and it's exhausting to be a gladiator.

He looks like he spends his day crushing warriors under the shield of Aeneas. Muscles band his arms and neck. Thick, lustrous hair falls in blue-black waves along his cheeks, his eyes a speckled tan, nestled deep. His olive skin is smooth and unmarred, except where thick stubble shades his jawline. Even his stubble looks like it could take me in a fight.

Yellow poison dots no bigger than the plastic head of a serving pin. A drug used on combat missions, collaquially known as Hammer. He should know exactly how many I have left, as he's supervised by trials.

It should be harder to kill someone. The ease of unblades made their purpose somehow more terrible.

Barb let the joyous, icy clarity of combat wash over her.

Barb saw the choreography of the upcoming fight unfold before her inner eye as if the combatants were actors belting taped marks.

The Romans learned what European armies were to discover hundreds of years later: that the best-trained and best-equipped fighting force in the world might come to grief against partisans fighting on their own territory and for a cause for which they would willingly sacrifice themselves and their families.

By training his soldiers to lunge with their bayonets not at the charging Highlander in front of them, but at the one to their right as he raised his arm to strike and thus exposed himself to a lethal thrust, Cumberland now had the tactic that could counteract the violent shock of the clansmen's charge. His troops sensed for the first time that they could beat the Jacobites in a pitched battle.

But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war, there can be no substitute for victory.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

What happens is that Fate, which enjoys spicing things up with a dash of the unforeseen, determines that everything must have an end, and forces one of the combatants, sooner or later, to make a mistake. It is therefore merely a matter of keeping Fate at bay long enough for the other man to make a mistake first. Anything else is pure illusion.

El capitán, seguro de no resistir mucho rato frente a cinco hombres armados y diestros en el oficio, decidió no andarse con lindezas de esgrima, y en vez de curar su salud procuró desbaratar la de sus enemigos.

En un combate no importaba tanto lo que se hiciera como ejecutarlo con audacia y determinación.

La artillería es el arma que bate habitualmente a la infantería propia y a veces a la enemiga

A los combatientes españoles muertos por Francia. Y vaya si combatieron. Unos, capturados por los nazis y rechazados por la España franquista, acabaron en campos de exterminio.

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms; no pride; no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.