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Quotes About Combat

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
~ Ty Cobb
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
~ Unknown
No good plan survives contact with the enemy.
~ Unknown
Start at the point where you need me to hit something with a sword.
~ Unknown
Las armas hablaban lenguajes distintos, pero pronunciaban la misma palabra: ¡muerte, muerte, muerte!
~ Unknown
Não é difícil morrer em batalha, com a espada em punho, morrer ao sol, no auge do êxtase, no frenesim do combate. Já uma coisa muito diferente é irmo-nos apagando lentamente, à míngua e ao abandono.
~ Unknown
Miles meus contubernalis Dic mihi cras quis erit vivus Iacta pilum hostem neca Miles sum, miles romanus!
~ Unknown
To extend love, to promote thought, to lighten suffering, to combat indifference, to inspire activity. To know everything of something and something of everything.
~ Vera Brittain
Eighty percent of American forces contracted dysentery in another siege, but they kept fighting. Some had to go into combat with the backsides of their pants cut away.
~ Unknown
Merrill's Marauders, as well as the pilots of the Flying Tigers.
~ Unknown
You think your muscles hurt? Try a blade in the belly.
~ Unknown
He heard the hiss of an arrow followed by the thud of a body hitting the ground. They'd hit one of the riders behind him. More arrows cut through the air, one so close to his ear he felt the fletching tickle his lobe.
~ Unknown
The best defense is a good offense.
~ Jack Dempsey
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
~ Walter Payton
Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.
~ Masaaki Hatsumi
Conversely, it is correct to say that bringing about peace would be the best way to fight terror.
~ Bashar al-Assad
Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam
~ Michael Spinks
I got the best advice I've ever been given; 'Punch him in the face as much as you can.' Keep it simple, so that's what I did.
~ Unknown
No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
~ Chris Kyle
There were times that I needed to go to battle, but how I went to battle wasn't always the best way in.
~ Tori Amos