Quotes About Combat

Train hard, get good coaching, and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting, and focus on multiple disciplines.

I've definitely been in elements of grappling where I'm tied up and in a weird position and my mouth and my nose are covered and I can't breathe. You still have to be able to escape. The last thing you want to do is tap in that scenario when you have an opportunity to escape.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.

Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don't like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That's why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.

Nor was caution a sufficient protection to those who kept aloof; for darts, discharged from engines or by the hand, inflicted wounds on most of them; and thus the brave and the timid, though of unequal merit, were exposed to equal danger.

could be an antidote to clinical depression. Smith fed off risk and nerves for the rest of his life, noticeable early with his cavalier photo work in combat zones in the Pacific theater of World War II, and he fell into deep depressions when the urgency wasn't there.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

For moviegoers to get the idea of real combat, you'd have to shoot at them every so often from either side of the screen.

Ya lo dijo Gandhi: para que algo funcione se requiere llevar el combate a un terreno en el que poseemos armas.

Girls fight much dirtier than boys

You couldn't see the soldiers as people. They were icons.

You're not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy's also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.

The Riddler says you make the world better one battle at a time.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

I'll fight anyone, at any time!

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

You can just fight one man at a time.

I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.

He was outfitted for the occasion with his broadsword, long knife, several throwing knives tucked in his boots, the dragon pistol, and a pocket pistol in his waistcoat. You are a walking armory, Father Jacob observed. Because you are a walking target, said Sir Ander.

I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.

La castidad, en la que antaño veía una superstición que debía combatirse, le parecía ahora una de las caras de la serenidad: saboreaba ese frío conocimiento que uno tiene de los seres cuando ya no los desea.