Quotes About Combat

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

Soldados, os habéis portado como héroes combatiendo por la Reforma […] no una, sino infinidad de veces habéis hecho doblar la cerviz a vuestros adversarios […]. Hoy vais a pelear por un objeto sagrado: vais a pelear por la Patria […]. Nuestros enemigos son los primeros soldados del mundo; pero vosotros sois los primeros hijos de México".

But war, as we will see, creates its own motives as combat escalates, and it rarely follows a course that does not have unintended consequences that subordinate its original purpose.71

Marc ducked, holstered his weapon. "You want to play? Have it your way." But then Darcangelo was behind him. "I've got this, Hunter. You go find the girl's dad. I'll handle Karate Kid here. I haven't had a good workout in weeks.

Instincts were his first line of defense. His body was his second. He trained it, kept it in fighting shape, just as he did any other weapon.

Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat oppression; beware of the oppressed.

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

Evil must always be fought.

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

He was a better fighter than I was, but he wasn't faster than me. Nor was he as motivated, and I think he underestimated me. He thought he was fighting a girl with a stick when he was fighting Adam's mate, Coyote's daughter, armed with Lugh's staff.

Mercy: Then why didn't Marsilia just come herself? Andre: Marsilia is a lady. Women do not belong in combat. Mercy: So you brought me instead?

You aren't up to dealing with werewolf business." "Seems to me that she's been dealing just fine," Adam said mildly. "She killed two of them in as many days and came out of it without a scratch." "Luck," said Samuel. "Is it?" In my rearview mirror, I saw Adam close his eyes as he finished in almost a whisper. "Maybe so. When I was in the army, we kept lucky soldiers where they would do us the most good." "Adam

Laeth returned her smile with one as wicked, as he posed the favorite question of one of the combat instructors, "How many ways are there to kill a person with a knife?" "It doesn't matter, it only takes one to do the job," returned Rialla.

Trust you to bring a gun to a fistfight

Every boarding party needs its guide to light the way, its wizard to defeat the magic and a tank that kill everything that tries to stop the party. The tank is not sacrificial.

Try to look unimportant, Sarge; maybe they'll be low on ammo." "Too late," Adam said with an involuntary grin. He hadn't heard that phrase since 'Nam, when officers were favorite targets of the enemy.

I'd never felt like this after a fight, though. Usually, I feel energized and cheerful, not sick and scared out of my skin.

Shisei kai kan is an oddball form of karate Sensei likes to call "reach out and break someone.

Unlike human fights -- or even werewolf fights -- vampire fights could take a long time. Not breathing, not needing a beating heart meant that a vampire was dangerous long after a werewolf would be unconscious. It takes a great deal of damage to make a vampire lose consciousness.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.