Quotes About Combat

If we think about physical strength and that women lack in it, we must understand that in a tough situation, mental strength is more important than physical power. So, women are equally strong for combat roles.

The physicality of boxing is like nothing else.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.

Modernity and technology are not going to mitigate the need, the reality, of face-to-face combat, and I don't care who it is - when you put a man against a woman in hand-to-hand combat, the chance is the man is going to win... This is a physiological issue, not a culture issue.

At middleweight, I started to find an ideal weight for me. I face guys my size, my height, and with my physique.

I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.

I think my being a combat pilot, being a woman who has had to break down barriers and succeed in a male-dominated environment, and, I think, just being in the military for 26 years have all helped me.

Being in a male-dominated career field as a combat pilot, I got used to kind of blocking out the lies in the attacks that people would levy against me and trying to tell me who I am and define who I am when I know what I'm fighting for.

I look at Weili Zhang and see myself. She has heavy hands and if we exchange, I want to be better than her. When she fires, I want to be the sniper and her with a small pistol.

I felt when I was hitting guys or going for a takedown at 185, sometimes it was like hitting a wall.

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

Fighters remember that one-punch KO. Something clicks, and they lose it. They don't wanna be knocked out. It happened to Roy Jones.

I work on armbars, triangles, anaconda chokes, guillotines and rear-naked chokes. Basic, simple stuff. I just wanna go there and win the fight, I don't wanna invent too much and try doing fancy things.

People talk, talk, but when it's time to fight me, they all wanna hug me.

I don't wanna fight a street fighter.

I wanna get myself in such good shape that no matter how much I push myself in a fight, I know that the other guy is gonna be a little bit more tired.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it is not fought on U.S. soil.