Quotes About Combat

GSP, that little syrup sucker, he can come get this. He thinks he's the greatest welterweight of all time. I have something else to say about that. I'll destroy him.

There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.

Het enige dat de mensen verbindt zijn de oorlogen die ze elkaar aandoen.

Il faisait un froid de guerre.

il arrive malheureusement parfois que ceux qui croient combattre le diable, quelque idée qu'ils s'en fassent d'ailleurs, se trouvent ainsi tout simplement, sans s'en douter le moins du monde, transformés en ses meilleurs serviteurs !

Most sports require you to master the movements of only your own body to be successful. The combat grappling arts, such as jujitsu, require you to become the master not only of your own movement but also that of your opponent—a far more difficult and complex task.

The chances of a submission hold being successfully applied are much higher when done from a dominating and controlling position.

In fact, there is an axiom of martial arts training that everyone ought to know: The way you train is the way you will fight. Martial arts that allow you to apply your technique at close to full power in daily training and sport allow you to constantly use those very techniques in almost exactly the same way during a real fight.

In our society, we've become content with fighting against things. Fighting against cancer, fighting against poverty, fighting against war, fighting against drugs, fighting against terrorisim, fighting against violence. We tend to fight everything we don't want, which actually creates more of a fight.

So what? That just means I can beat him with both scrolls at the same time!!

Let's see... "Advanced Flanking Theory", by U.R. Skrood. "Fighting on the Grid", by Minnie Churse. "Moving on Diagonals", by Wun and Ahaff. Ah ha! Here it is: "Attacks of Opportunity Explained", by Ben Dover and Taye Kitt.

Many times Subotai fought against armies larger than his own, but he always maneuvered to insure that when the final blow was struck, he unfailingly achieved numerical superiority at the decisive point.

Two Talented Gladiators RVSTICVS MALIVS XII C XI M • TERNTIVS III C III Rsticus Malius XII, c(ornae) XI; M(rcus) Terntius III, c(ornae) III.

He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.

Do you know that much of the Christian warfare consisteth in the combat between the flesh and the Spirit; and that is the very difference between a true Christian and a wicked wretch, that one liveth after the Spirit, and mortifieth the deeds and desires of the body, and the other liveth after the flesh?

the furious firepower of the 16 Panzer Division was turned on to our positions. … There was a shout 'Tanks in front!

The flailing storm of lead crumpled and threw Jake Holman like a giant hand wadding wastepaper.

There were the men who gave and took death in battle. There were the other men who shuffled papers and cooked beans and such, logistic support for the fighters. The army could keep them separate. In a ship, they all went into battle together. You could not make the distinction between man and man. It had to be made within each man, and each man had constantly to make it for himself.

Some men might make a complicated business of going after a burglar. It was simple and easy, the way I handled it. I crept quietly downstairs and into the dark living-room, and parried a blackjack with my head.

A six-foot-tall man and a ten-pound monkey are pretty evenly matched in a stand-up fight. The monkey will be all over the man. By the end of the fight, the man may need hundreds of stitches, and could be blinded.

Man is not satisfied with a happy idyllic life: he has the need to fight and to encounter danger.

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long or too directly. That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.

He knew from his experience overseas that if you only got shot by people aiming at you specifically, war wouldn't have been nearly such a hazardous affair.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive. SMASH! Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.