Quotes About Combat

How you want it? Show me my opponent.

When we learn how to battle with the sword of the Spirit, with its two edges of the Word and God's Holy Spirit, the enemy will flee before us.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

I would take lots of falls and you know, get shot three or four times and this sort of thing, so all that sort of stuff. And there are tussles with various characters. I like that kind of thing.

I like fighting in Las Vegas.

I can fight Mark Hunt, Velasquez, Brock Lesnar or anyone else in Las Vegas.

When I first started, I lived in Vegas because I was fighting in the UFC, and I was still fighting after the UFC.

Electric vehicles will play an important role in our efforts to combat climate change, and we're working to make them more affordable and accessible for Vermonters.

I grew up on the street, and I found a way to vent my frustrations through fighting.

Rose is a very versatile athlete, she works her striking well.

If you're versatile, and get punched in the face, but still go forward, that frustrates Joanna, she doesn't know what to do.

A condition of war' exists.

Secrecy and deception in war is often how one wins that war. And it is my preference that we win this fight.

All right. They're on our left. They're on our right. They're in front of us, they're behind us. They can't get away this time." —COLONEL LEWIS "CHESTY" PULLER

Every Marine was trained in handling a rifle, no matter what noncombat job he might assume down the road. Right now, at Hagaru-ri, every Marine was now a rifleman.

Too far! Dammit, I need a rifle! But his own men were answering, the M-1s close beside him opening up. "I got one! I got one!" Marley's

Curiously, while drone operators are perhaps the safest of all combat troops physically, they have among the highest rates of depression and post-traumatic stress in the military and national security services. Sitting at a video console in Colorado or New York City, killing someone six thousand miles away and then collecting the kids at gymnastics or football practice, having dinner and sitting down to watch Dancing with the Stars in your suburban den was disorienting beyond belief.

Like most soldiers, he'd wielded a Black and Decker steam iron far more frequently than an M16.

I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent to war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable?

For while my classmates found The Iliad too bloody for their taste, an endless catalogue of men butchering one another after formally introducing themselves, I thrilled to the stabbings and beheadings, the gouging out of eyes, the juicy eviscerations.)

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.