Quotes About Combat

I have seen the consequences of what can happen in boxing.

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

The survival of ISIS's ideology is success enough for them. We must spare no effort in denying ISIS this success.

In the ongoing effort to combat Ebola, more needs to be done to rewrite the public-health narrative. It must move from one that has been infused with fear to one that recognizes the hope for survival that supportive care can offer infected people.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

There are no survivors in my fights.

After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

When I fight, part of the swagger that I had when I used to fight on the street comes out. When I fought on the street, I used to try to embarrass someone for even wanting to fight me.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

I think the ability and the knowledge to be able to defend yourself builds confidence. Also there's great gratification in the sweat and work you get from any combat training.

Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

I say the sweet science is to understand not only how to fight coming forward, how to be a big puncher, but also understand, if you run into a guy who can take your punch for the first time, how to react.

The squared circle's no pretty place to be, and there's nothin' sweet about it.

If you fight improperly, you can be in great shape, run marathons, swim 200 meters and I can still gas you in two minutes of a fight. If you don't know how to fight, it doesn't matter.

I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.

You have to think tactically and you can't just go in and swing against the first best opponent.

I would love to have a crack at Michael Bisping - with or without the gold, I'd want to have a crack at him because I respect him as a fighter, and he's a tough dude, and I'd love to swing it out with him.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

In the build-up to a fight, I am scared, and I do worry about myself. But once I step into that arena, that worry has gone. A switch gets flicked, and I want to do damage. All I care about is doing damage as fast as possible.