Quotes About Combat

Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'

Nine times out of 10 the smarter or mentally focused fighter comes out on top.

If I ever get into the BKB, yeah, it would be fun. I never really liked the gloves in the UFC anyway. So, I think it's better. You got to pick your shots. You got to be smarter.

Dumb and tough goes a long way in this sport but to be elite, you've got to be smarter.

I think I'd want Tommen'to fight the Hound! And the Mountain! The Hound and the Mountain on one side, and Tommen on the other side. That would be so sick. Tommen would smash it!

I don't know what other fighters do, but when I get hit and go down, I smile and I say, 'I'm going to hit you harder than you hit me, and I'm going to knock you out.' The times I go down and get back up - that's when I'm the most dangerous.

If I didn't have a great right hook, the bigger, heavier fighters would grind me down and smother me.

I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

I've been doing this for so many years that I believe Gamboa can't bring anything to the ring that I haven't seen.

I have a new appreciation for how fit martial artists are. There is so much energy being exerted when you fight.

When the history of the earth enters a very critical period, as at present, the myths, gods and demons that direct us, the Archetypes, come to take an even more active part, becoming almost visible to many. They participate directly in the combat, as happened in the last world war, of cosmic resonance.

Da, ?ovek može da se navikne i na fijuk metaka, to jest da skriva nehoti?ne otkucaje srca. -?uo sam, naprotiv, da je za poneke stare ratnike ta muzika ?ak prijatna. -Razume se, ako ho?ete, to je prijatno; ali ipak samo zato što srce kuca ja?e.

Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.

Il y a des situations où l'homme est condamné à donner un spectacle. Son combat contre le pouvoir silencieux, c'est le combat d'une troupe de théâtre qui s'attaque à une armée.

Turks say, 'water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless.

Giving the latest technology and weaponry to your military forces might seem to be enough to overwhelm the enemy, but unless you bring mental firepower to the fight, it could all be for naught. —a general of Old Earth

It was a time of war. Isn't it always.

If you see you're going to get popped in a fair fight, don't fight fair.

More fights are lost by underestimating your opponent than by any other way.

At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts.

At some level, all love is combat, a wrestling with ghosts. We are only for something by being against something else. People who believe they are having pleasant, casual, uncomplex sexual encounters, whether with friend, spouse, or stranger are blocking from consciousness the tangle of psychodynamics at work, just as they block the hostile clashings of their dream life.

He had no illusions about what that meant; he understood the nature of who he was. He was trained to fight, and he looked forward to testing himself in combat. When he was going into battle, he was alive in a way that was both exciting and satisfying. He was complete.

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul

Anger made a better warrior than fear.