Quotes About Combat

Every other Spartan on the field charged as well, hundreds of half-camouflaged armored figures, running and firing at the dazed Jackals, appearing as a wave of ghost warriors, half liquid, half shadow, part mirage, part nightmare. They screamed a battle cry, momentarily drowning the sound of gunfire and explosion. Tom yelled with them--for the fallen, for his friends, and for the blood of his enemies.

war is long, life is short.

And what was sport, underneath, but a kind of sanitized, ritualized violence?

Bumblestripe: "I think we showed them." Hazeltail: "Showed them what? How much blood can be spilled in a pointless battle?

It's been moons since anyone attacked my tail," he'd rasped wistfully.

Warriors think with their claws, not their heads.

One of the most important skills a mentor must teach an apprentice is how to fight.

Without hesitation Breezepelt darted in among them and slashed his claws across the nearest stoat's face before darting out again and running on. "Take that, mange-pelt!" he yowled. The injured stoat let out a screech of pain, and a furious chittering rose from its denmates.

This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself – ask any soldier. I stepped outside into the daylight.

The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy' Rear-Admiral Ben Bryant CB, DSO and two bars, DSC

Fear is the mother of all emotion. Before love, hate, spite, grief, rage, and all the rest, there was fear, and fear gave birth to them all, and ask every combat soldier knows there are as many incarnations and species of fear as the Eskimo language has words for snow.

Survival, to judge from the racks of guns, knives, gougers, stabbers and garrotters on display, tends to involve homicide.

Rule #2: Hit First. Don't take the punch first. Hit first. Hit hard. Hit where it counts. Mike

One account exists of how a French soldier disarmed one of the warriors only to have her take him down with a judo shoulder throw and tear out his jugular with her teeth.

The fight was done. Even gods tire of fighting.

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them

There is no small enemy.

Everything that happens inside the cage is very quick and the fighter acts more by reflex than by reasoning.

We should be challenging and reforming our legislation around the world to actually combat hostile actors, whether they're domestic or foreign.

Homelessness can be complex, and some rough sleepers will refuse help when living on the street becomes entrenched. But fining people, confiscating tents, and forcing people to move on from certain areas will do nothing to combat the core issues that cause homelessness.

A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on.

I'm going to hit you as hard as I can regardless of whether you touch my gloves or not.

I was as much at first probably against Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather as anyone else but... as soon as I turned off the purity of the combat sports thing, this is a business. Guys, we're all trying to make a living, we're all trying to entertain people and guess what, it's the second-biggest PPV in history regardless of how you feel about it.

It is one thing to go into combat, but quite another to go in with the sapping knowledge that what you do in the next few chaotic minutes or hours in the name of your mates, your regiment, your country, might also see you dragged into court.