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Quotes About Combat

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.
~ Suzanne Vega
I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.
~ Michael Bisping
Ricky Hatton has no sense of anticipation of what's coming his way. You can teach him all you want, but he doesn't have those instincts.
~ Paulie Malignaggi
I'm a fighter. We come from the beginning, no gloves, no rules, no time limits.
~ Royce Gracie
In a street fight situation, there's no weight division, there's no time limits.
~ Royce Gracie
Boxing is a noble sport.
~ Viktor Orban
Conor McGregor knows how to control distance well, but Anderson does it like nobody else.
~ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Normally for me, it's not interesting. When do you see in the jungle, female fighters fighting each other? I mean it's not human nature.
~ Gegard Mousasi
I think I've become one of the best finishers in boxing; if I hurt a guy, I normally take him out.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
Normally, when a fighter gets challenged, they answer.
~ Shayna Baszler
I always break people's noses with the uppercut, not the hook.
~ Gervonta Davis
You get notoriety when you fight.
~ Urijah Faber
Boxers are absolute novices in the clinch.
~ Artem Lobov
In war time, nowhere is safe.
~ Phan Thi Kim Phuc
It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.
~ Rose Namajunas
I look back at my life fighting and I can't believe I did all that. This sport is totally nuts.
~ Frank Shamrock
The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.
~ Carlos Condit
I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me.
~ Eddie Alvarez
Being a black belt from the Nogueira brothers, I have the obligation to always defend myself well on the ground.
~ Anderson Silva
I've used guns in combat. On more than one occasion, guns have saved my life. But there's a big difference between a U.S. Marine with a rifle and a civilian with a gun.
~ Seth Moulton
I've been shot at on numerous occasions.
~ John Pomfret
Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror, and had seen so many men killed that he no longer had any illusions about the inviolability of his own flesh. He knew he could be killed; it was something he had accepted long ago, and he had grown a shell about that knowledge so that he rarely thought of anything further ahead than the next few minutes…
~ Norman Mailer
The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard street was fitted out with muscle- making inventions. With the fibres thus builded up the members were wont to engage the police and rival social and athletic organisations in joyous combat. Between these more serious occupations the Saturday night hop with the paper-box factory girls came as a refining influence and as an efficient screen.
~ O. Henry
He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him.
~ Orson Scott Card