Quotes About Combat

There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a female boxer should look like. I don't think the men really have to deal with that - to tell people they're a boxer.

When I have that sinking feeling in my stomach before a fight and I have that dread that I'm going to step in there with a savage who is coming in there to hurt me... I have my best fights. I'm at my best under those circumstances.

Don't look forward to me putting on the trunks and knee braces to get back in the ring and stomp a mudhole in somebody and walking it dry.

When you are fighting a man who is over a stone heavier than you, you feel it. You feel it in the punches and in the clinches.

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.

I get a pit in my stomach every time I think of that last attempt to make 155 for the Anthony Pettis fight. I just get this nasty feeling in my stomach, because no exaggeration, that was one of the scariest moments of my life. I remember that I couldn't stop my body from shaking.

One thing I've learned is that a lot of fans' knowledge starts and stops with the UFC.

I think Khabib is going to take him down immediately, or create some kind of scramble immediately. I don't think Poirier stops his takedowns.

Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.

I busted my nose 11 times. My fingers are all busted. My ribs. Both my arms. I can't straighten them out.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

Being a woman fighter, I can't just go out there and manhandle a girl, I need to be very strategic: Use my skills, head movement and defence, then seek and destroy.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

Of course, had the British Army been used in a more all-out fashion, concentration camps, air raids, artillery bombardments and the rest of it, the result might have been different.

whenever a soldier is laughing instead of blasting you with his futuristic superweapon, that's a good thing.

The spectacle of the United States Army chasing the unarmed veterans, their wives, and their children out of the shadow of the Capitol was a scene of American urban combat without parallel since the Civil War.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth Former United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist

In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

I'm oddly comfortable in the ring.

My entire business model is to go on offense.