Quotes About Combat

En esta magnífica obra escrita por Carol Gaskin y Vince Hawkins, el lector viajará por los paisajes que acogieron a estos rotundos guerreros. Conocerá sus técnicas de combate, sus códigos de conducta y, sobre todo, el honor que impulsó sus vidas hasta las últimas consecuencias. Una historia apasionante que les invito a conocer

Consider this. The essence of war is to kill your enemy and not get killed yourself.

Guerillas? There are guerillas here in Dixie?" It was lucky I was looking down. I thought he meant "gorillas" for a minute, and I was having a picture in my head that was crazy wonderful. Then my brain translated.

It's complicated to stand and trade with me. My first hand lands and you already feel it.

I never talk about shooting anybody, but I do acknowledge I was a member of the IRA, and as a member of the IRA, I obviously engaged in fighting back against the British army.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

I've seen men and women who were fit for combat that I wanted to fight beside, and men and women who I really wouldn't want to go back into combat with. It really doesn't have anything to do with gender.

I'm not the type of guy to back down from anybody. I think if you want to fight in the octagon you have to have that mentality.

I feel like anyone at middleweight, when I have a full training camp, I'm going to go out there and finish them. That's my mentality.

Only guys who fight for a living know what it's like to be hungry and beaten and tired, mentally, all the time. The average person has no understanding of what that is and what that could be.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

I learned as a fighter I know how to go out there and mess somebody.

I know Primus is bigger than me, but Chandler's face was a mess when they fought. He was dropped with a jab. His chin is not that great.

I like listening to Method Man before fighting.

Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight.

In the midst of having great fights, sometimes you have good fights and sometimes you just have a fight.

In the midst of the war against ISIS, we have also waged war on corruption in civil and military institutions.

Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

I think we as a society, a global community, we as governments, need to figure out ways to combat ISIS, not just as a military force but as an idea.

Military force can't defeat ideology.

My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring.

We are gladiators of the third millennium and Rome is the cradle of the gladiators.

I know people think I'm just the Diego Sanchez from the Gilbert Melendez fight. Hook, hook, hook. A crazy brawler. But I realized the best possible fighter would not get hit. He'd close the distance and minimize the chances of the lights going out. I want to fight as long as I can and be as healthy as I can.

War consisteth not in battle only,or the act of fighting;but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known