Quotes About Combat

You not only have to box smart, you have to be ruthless in the ring.

I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'

There is nothing more I love more than being in a throw-down on a Saturday night.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

I love action. I love doing fight scenes; I always have. I love it.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I'm not a scientist, I'm a martial artist.

You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it's a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.

I can't tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I'd done so much reading.

I started in SEAL Team 3 in 2008.

A fight is usually longer than five seconds.

I dictate the pace of my fights and no one else.

I try to be physical when I get pads on.

I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.

Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.

When you pancake a guy, and you feel their breath exhale, to me that's their soul leaving their body.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

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Clausewitzian strategy of seeking the most expeditious means of weakening the enemy's will to continue the struggle.28

Such perfection endures. For more than two millennia after horse-riding was invented, the warhorse remained the most important military technology bar none. A plentiful supply of horses was critical even in the 19th century, well after firearms had replaced the bows and arrows. Have you ever wondered why Napoleon, who won all of his battles until 1812, lost one battle after another in 1813 and 1814, leading to defeat and abdication? The surprising answer is: horses.

Humans are uniquely good throwers. No other species even comes close. Monkeys and apes can throw branches, rotten fruit, and excrement (I still remember an encounter with an irate troop of howler monkeys in Costa Rica . . .), but they do not use projectiles as lethal weapons in hunting or combat. Our closest relatives, chimpanzees, are quite pathetic at throwing.94 Imagine

If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree.

Virtue 'gainst fury shall advance the fight, and it to the combat soon shall put to flight, for the Old Roman Valor is not dead! Nor in the Italian's breasts, extinguish-ed.