Quotes About Combat

Even the basics of learning how to throw a good punch is very hard.

I want to avoid every punch you throw at me, but I'm not scared to get hit. But I'm not just going to let everybody hit me.

Sometimes people say, 'You've got to go out there and grit your teeth and just throw.' That's never been my style, but I think I need to be a little bit more aggressive instead of counterpunching.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

I lost six months of work due to throwing open punches and took a punch on the chin.

Boxing is full of chances and it's easy throwing a shot, it's about landing it at the precise time.

Standing there and throwing, that's what everyone likes to see.

I'm used to throwing my body around. I'm used to taking a punch.

That takes it out of you, throwing too many punches.

If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you're going to get caught - bang - and the fight could be over.

I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.

I just couldn't turn down the money Bare Knuckle FC were throwing at me, so I ended up signing with them.

When I come in throwing shots from different angles and with both hands, I've been knocking people clean out.

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of that extra muscle because you don't want to be thrown around like you're nothing.

If every punch thrown was a knockout, then fantastic, but most punches don't end up in knockouts and most submissions don't end up being the one to finish the match.

I've never said 'no' to a fight and I've always been ready for anything they've thrown my way.

The way I stand and my posture really complicates my opponents; they don't understand it and don't know what to do about. The way I stand there in front of them really throws them off.

I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.

When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.

In pro wrestling, if somebody throws a move, it's my job not to get hurt but also to sell the move and make it look like I'm dying.

I think against Cub I get it done. He comes in, he's very open, he throws wild shots, and he has never, I promise you, in his life felt power that I have.

People want to be empowered to the point where they can thwart their enemies physically.

I just really like ground and pound. The way I do it, it looks like I'm just throwing bombs, but there's some technique to it too. I make sure I'm controlling the hips, palming his face to the ground, just little things like this that make sure that the ground and pound works and I'm not letting him tie me up to where I can't throw punches.