Quotes About Combat

No one has advanced the argument that all-male fighting forces have been handicapped in their war-making abilities over the millennia because they did not include women in their ranks.

I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it's a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can't.

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

It might seem that way, but getting hit with a bare knuckle is not as raw as getting hit with a bare knee, or getting kicked with a shin to your head, which I have been a few times. In that sense, it's nothing.

You don't knock Ray Mercer out with one or two shots. You have to make him quit.

I know one thing: Ray Mercer is not going down from a head punch. I think he's got one of the best chins in the game.

In the light of the actual fighting that is now in progress, we have reached the point where the military considerations clearly outweigh the fiscal considerations.

Any claim that our fighting forces are not reaching their maximum potential because females are not included is absurd.

I think a fighter should be ready and able to adapt to anything that is in front of him in the ring.

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

In 'Colonial Marines' you come into the game as a marine, and how you play depends on your equipment and by the choices you're making in real time.

People come into fights against me and say this and that, but when they realise how quick and how hard I hit, their game plan disappears.

I know that it's a fight at the end of the day; it's not a grappling match.

I love judo. I love grappling. I love jiu-jitsu.

I know that my grappling is up there with any grappler in the division.

Grappling is my style.

I feel like I have an advantage in grappling with just about anybody I fight.

Somebody showed me a fight where somebody had gotten cut on the forehead and was just gushing blood and kept going throughout the fight. I couldn't grasp the concept that anybody would want to do that.

Jiu jitsu is a great art for self-defense. But jiu jitsu alone won't get you to a world championship in the UFC or even a winning record sometimes.

The greatest thing about fighting a guy like Dave Rickels: He always comes to fight.

I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

I am a very good sniper, and I can put five bullets into that red circle and I know how to throw hand grenades.

Fights like that, when I have been in those really gritty wars, that's what I live for. I love that stuff.