Quotes About Combat

Street fights are unpredictable, dirty fights.

In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.

I do Jiu Jitsu so I can protect you when I fight you.

I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked. It's supposed to make you feel something.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Never leave an enemy standing.

Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

We are the modern day gladiators.

Strategy is the craft of the warrior.

Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

Kempo is for the street first; everything else is secondary.

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

Boxing is so loose and flowy, and martial arts is more stiff, and about strength and structure.