Quotes About Combat

War is at its best barbarism.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.

I look at B.J. Penn as one of the best boxers in the business. He's got one of the best jabs around.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

One Irishman, Melaghin McCabb, boasted that he had dispatched eighty Spaniards with his gallowglass axe.

She's really beating the stuffing out of him. What do you think we should do? Sell tickets. - Riker and Worf

offensive à l'outrance'.

Before him, tribes would throw long spears at each other and wait. Like, ho hum, arrow arrow in the air, hey, want some coffee? Shaka said no way, José — well, maybe not José but the Zulu equivalent — short spears are better! Then you can go right up to your enemy's ugly face and wham! Stab! Arrrrgghh!

Cutting out meat would do more to help combat climate change than any other action we could feasibly take in the next 20 years.

Ranged weapons, together with the mastery of fire, literally made us human. They also defined what may be called the "human way of war." The distinguishing characteristic of human combat is the ability to strike from a distance coupled with mobility.

Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily . . . in the street brawls.

war is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe.

The terms of this combat are these. If Iofur Raknison kills me, then he will be king forever, safe from challenge or dispute. If I kill Iofur Raknison, I shall be your king. My first order to you all will be to tear down that palace, that perfumed house of mockery and tinsel, and hurl the gold and marble into the sea. Iron is bear-metal. Gold is not. Iofur Raknison has polluted Svalbard. I have come to cleanse it. Iofur Raknison, I challenge you.

S'il n'y avait pas de combat parce que le commandant local avait réussi à pacifier sa région, tant pis pour lui – pas de médaille. Il