Quotes About Combat

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat." – John Steinbeck

In Aikido, we train not to learn how to win; we train to learn to emerge victorious in any situation.

The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat.

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

I really connected with martial arts. I'd always had a fantasy as a kid of being a ninja warrior, so it definitely answered that sort of need in my psyche, too - a need to be superpowerful.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

Krav Maga heightens perception and transforms fear into something more productive.

The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?

[...]you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.

The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.

The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Anyone can throw a jab, but it takes skill to land a punch and make it hurt.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

we train for war and fight to win.