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Quotes About Combat

if you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. But if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Do you understand?" "I don't
~ Steve Alten
A good offense is the best defense.
~ Steve Berry
time warrior does not manage time. A time warrior goes to war with (challenges and cuts away) all the beliefs that create linear time.
~ Steve Chandler
Youths are chosen for combat precisely because they are unable to fully imagine their own mortality. If armies were composed of the middle-aged, there would be no wars.
~ Steven Hartov
It's highly unpleasant to be gassed, but then it's just as unpleasant to be perforated or shredded by pieces of metal.
~ Steven Pinker
The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.
~ Matthew Hussey
I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.
~ Sophia Bush
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
All these feelings that you get before you fight or when you're fighting or training for a fight, it makes me feel alive, and I love that feeling.
~ Kron Gracie
I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love Got me look like baby Cupid Sending arrows from above
~ Jay Sean
I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.
~ Kit Harington
And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
~ Alicia Keys
Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.
~ Cat Zingano
The most successful way to combat these dark clouds that come between the light of you and that which you love, is to feel that love itself will rescue you.
~ Frederick Lenz
It's no wonder that people will fight to protect something that saves them from being possessed by emotions of chaos and terror (and after that from degeneration into strife and combat).
~ Jordan B. Peterson
Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat . . . between the law of love and the law of hate.
~ Jose Marti
Only one of us will need a boat when this combat is ended
~ Joseph Bédier
Kill every enemy twice, Wilky said. Better than gettin' shot by a soldier pretending to be dead.
~ Joseph Bruchac
This world is a military expedition, an eternal combat. No doubt all chose who fought courageously in a battle are worthy of praise, but also there is no doubt that the greatest glory goes to the one who returns wounded.
~ Joseph de Maistre
He twisted his head, opened his mouth wide, and lunged toward me as if to bite my head from my body. But I avoided those deadly jaws, then swung the hammer back hard into his face, smashing his front teeth into fragments and leaving only broken, bloody stumps. Few things have given me greater satisfaction!
~ Joseph Delaney
when you face many enemies, hurt the strongest first.
~ Joseph Delaney
MacArthur strode before his men, armed only with a riding crop, a cigarette holder clamped jauntily between his teeth, without the slightest suggestion in bearing or movement that he was under fire.
~ Joseph E. Persico
Our government seemed to expect the same of them as of white men. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior. . . . If you need combat soldiers, and especially if you need them in a hurry, don't put your time upon Negroes.
~ Joseph E. Persico
artillery pieces were lined up, only more of them, 4,000 in all, a gun every six yards stretching for fifteen miles. The enemy would be pounded with shells, only more of them, 4.5 million this time.
~ Joseph E. Persico