Quotes About Combat

My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

It's difficult when you step out there with somebody like me and my offense.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

I am an armor officer.

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

As a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a retired Flag Officer, I understand how critical it is to keep the military ready to fight.

I did a bit of everything, and I was never beaten. I was into Bruce Lee, mate. Oh yeah! I love my combat sports.

I fought fire with oil.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.

Henry Cejudo is going to become the greatest combat athlete of all time, being an Olympic champ and a two-division champ in the UFC.

Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

I was never, ever once angry in the ring.

I don't want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.

You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.

I'm not the kind of fighter who just hates each other before the fight. I can talk to you until one minute before the fight, and then I will take your head off if I can.

Blood is one of the things that made fights cool. Like, you knew it had gotten serious. I understand why we don't do it anymore.

I remember one time watching Jose Aldo fight Jonathan Brookins, and he just chopped him up.

Guys have a lot more to worry about when they're fighting me than they do fighting Khabib. He's just one-dimensional.

Nothing about Ben Askren impresses me. He's a one-dimensional fighter. He's never hurt a fly.

You can't really be one-dimensional in this fight game. If you are, you're going to get knocked out or you're going to get finished. Either that, or you're just going to take a lot of damage and you're just not going to be able to last very long.

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

I would love to fight a lot more often, but of course it's the UFC, and whenever they feel that they have an opening, then they can put us in there because there's so many fighters.