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Quotes About Combat

Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.
~ Tammy Duckworth
Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases ... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.
~ S. L. A. Marshall
Soldiers, strike the foe in the face!
~ Florus
A brave arm makes a short sword long.
~ Anonymous
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
~ German proverb
My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.
~ Khabib Nurmagomedov
I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
~ Mike Tyson
When I'm totally in tune with myself, and I'm flowing, it don't matter who I'm fighting; that's just a problem for anybody.
~ Rose Namajunas
I want the whole world to watch me fight. But you know if people are just tuning in to hear me trash talk are not fight fans.
~ Demetrious Johnson
I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You know when you connect in the right spot. It's like a tunnel vision.
~ Gerry Cooney
In Afghanistan and Iraq we would often get cowardly fire and rounds hitting us from the sides but we just hunker down and keep going, we don't turn the mission around.
~ Dan Crenshaw
For what we do training, as a fighter, you have to be able to flip that switch where you turn into that savage, that guy that's prepared to go to war.
~ Kamaru Usman
Finesse is catching the baseball on the edge of your glove when you're turning two, making the one-handed grabs and shoestring tackles by running across the field in football. And finesse is what I bring to fighting.
~ Tony Ferguson
In addition to a timeline, I have proposed that U.S. troops be removed from front line combat positions in Iraqi cities and towns, turning over daily security patrols, interactions with citizens, and any offensive security actions to the Iraqis themselves.
~ Peter DeFazio
The Hulk has an awesome superpower. He turns into this giant monster that can eliminate several dudes at once.
~ Ty Simpkins
When I get in that cage and fight, that's not me. It's somebody else. It's like a light switch that turns on.
~ Tito Ortiz
Gamers are horrible roommates because they monopolize the TV with something less watchable than 'The Mob Doctor' and, if that wasn't irritating enough, have the audacity to scream combat commands through a head set.
~ Sean Evans
Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.
~ Chris Kyle
What your soldier wants - really, really wants - is no-one shooting back at him.
~ Terry Pratchett
Two guys enter the cage and only one comes out the winner. It gets you pumped because you know the other guy is trying to finish you and you want to finish him before he gets his chance.
~ Travis Browne
The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!
~ Homer
Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.
~ Ilona Andrews
There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.
~ Joseph Heller
If he wants to box we'll box. If he wants to brawl we'll brawl.
~ Nonito Donaire