Quotes About Combat

Special ops isn't the answer to everything. Special ops is not the main guard.

I definitely like the rubber guard. I always try to use it, especially when I'm just grappling or at the gym.

Struve has great jiu-jitsu and I must avoid that. But when I'm in his guard, I can't be defensive, I have to go for kimuras, americanas and all of that.

With the way things are going now in the UFC, you have to be ready to fight anytime they call you. During war times, you have to keep your guns always clean.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

It doesn't mean much to me if I'm behind or not in a fight; the fact is that I hold these guns in my right and left hands.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

I fight with glory and I fight with guts and I fight with skills.

Some guys are gym fighters, some guys are better in the ring.

The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive.

Upon his arm he bare a gay bracer*, *small shield And by his side a sword and a buckler, And on that other side a gay daggere, Harnessed well, and sharp as point of spear:

Furthermore, one does not fight an enemy on the turf on which he is strongest, but where he is weakest.

Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

A solider always assumes that he is going to shoot, not to be shot.

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

I will not profess bravery [...] but I acknowledge a good deal of pleasure in fighting.

Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently. And while many will argue that women will only be allowed into combat arms units under the same requirements as their male counterparts, count me as skeptical.

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

Fights are won by fighting, not by running.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

I'm the guy that once graduated Ranger School - a place that starves you and denies you sleep for over two months - and took a fight six days later in the IFL and won.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

I have often wondered what it was like to be in the trenches during war, knowing that tomorrow morning you have got to go over the top and that you might die and what a surreal feeling, in addition to fear, that might be.