Quotes About Combat

Rigondeaux is a high-class boxer. He is smart, has speed and skill.

I've had such a tough time making weight at 155 all the time. I'd make the weight, but I don't feel like the same kind of Sage. My power in my punches, my explosion, my speed - it just doesn't feel the same.

I have good hand speed.

I spent a career carrying typically either an M16 or an M4 Carbine. An M4 Carbine fires a .223 caliber round, which is 5.56 mm at about 3000 feet per second.

I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

I finished Edson Barboza in a d'arce choke. What else do you want? He's very hard to take down. Spinning heel kicks, spinning kicks. I took some of his most powerful shots and I just kept coming forward. I'm the Boogeyman out there.

When I go in and fight, I'm not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the fans or anything like that. It's like a split personality.

To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just finding a way to spoil a good pitcher's pitches, really.

An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

Fighting is the best thing a man can have in his soul.

I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.

Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.

There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.