Quotes About Combat

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

The Mongols did not find honor in fighting; they found honor in winning.

I'm not young anymore. I'm really, really tired. And the world is too violent right now. It's a dilemma - I like action but I don't like violence.

Daenaira, Magnus realized, had the fighting instinct of a berserker. For her, once battle began, it didn't stop until she no longer felt threatened.

Spiritual combat is as brutal as men's battle!"74

In Skala warfare is a womanly thing.

More people died in Warsaw alone during the war than did Americans in both European and Pacific combat theaters

Ax? Dent? Enemy dent head with tomahawk?

my rifle had brought death and destruction

He was back at me like a cat, and he swung a hard chunk of wood from one of the smashed chairs. I caught the first one on the shoulder and I cleverly caught the next one right over the left ear. It broke a big white bell in my head, and he side-stepped, grunting for breath, and let me go down. I landed on my side, and he punted me in the belly like Groza trying for one from the mid-field stripe.

In any hand-to-hand combat, there's a constant back-and-forth of blows

When you're a combat pilot, you believe you're the best in the air. If you do, you're not cocky, you're combat-ready. If you don't, you'd better find another line of work.

Although he performed no acts of combat valor, as required by law, and left his troops behind, MacArthur was awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallant defense of the Philippines. The emaciated men he left on Bataan were in no condition to fight. They suffered from swelling joints, bleeding gums, numbness in feet and hands, low blood pressure, loss of body heat, shivers, shakes, and anemia so severe many could not walk.

Cage fighting appeals to the savage instinct in some people, including me, and we're all here for the same reason—to see one fighter annihilate another. We want to see bleeding eyes, gashes across the forehead, choke holds, bone-ripping submissions, and brutal knockout punches that send the corners scrambling for the doctor. Mix in a flood of cheap beer, and you have five thousand maniacs begging for blood.

He had a force of some seven hundred men, and aimed to wear down his opponents in a guerrilla war.

A set-piece battle would almost inevitably end in a crushing defeat for the Scots.

The rivals met in a battle lasting three hours.

in 1513, at least the Scots had been scythed down in hand-to-hand combat during a set-piece battle.

What a splendid little war!

The problem was that blowing things up was the only thing Skelly had ever been taught to do.

The concert of the guns was ready to resume.

Between June 1 and August 1, 200,825 British soldiers in France, out of two million, were hit hard enough that they could not report for duty even in the midst of desperate combat. Then the disease was gone. On August 10, the British command declared the epidemic over. In Britain itself on August 20, a medical journal stated that the influenza epidemic "has completely disappeared.

The world doesn't need more people to save the world, what it really needs is more people to kick asses of those who pollute.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.