Quotes About Combat

Honestly, I don't talk; I just like to fight. I'm not a good talker.

It's not about how much money I'm getting paid. It's just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I'm at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I'm the master of it all.

Conor McGregor started well with his marketing, he talks a lot and is a great fighter, we can't deny that, but I think he crossed the line.

McGregor talks a lot, but he's also really tough and deserves our respect.

People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.

Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.

Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

Sometimes at 155 pounds I was the smaller fighter, at 145 pounds I am more often the bigger fighter, and the taller fighter.

McGregor is a huge 145-pounder with long reach and is taller than his opponents - and that's something that I've always wanted.

Rose had some openings that I could fit my game in. Even though she was taller than me and had a longer reach, I was stronger in short distance, my strikes connect better.

We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

Stumbling back, I shout fire hoodoo, but they walk right through that. I can't think straight. I know there are other ways to hurt them, but my brain has flatlined.

I came back to earth to kill things, so I have to expect things to fight back occasionally.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.

Experience had taught me that warthogs who tough it out are better in combat than your natural gazelles.

To me, a Purple Heart is not a badge of honor. To be blunt about it, I've always considered them enemy marksmanship medals and I'm happy not to have ever "won" one.

In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.

This world will try to beat you down. Only laughter can counteract that. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often.

Know your enemy. Know the terrain. Know the conditions under which the battle will be fought.

He looks like he could be taken in a fight. Not by me, but by somebody. Not anyone in Humanities, probably.

The return of the last American combat forces from Vietnam in 1973 marked the sudden end of the pre-eminence of the Western among the genres of mythic discourse.

Human competitiveness still has elements of the primate system of achieving status by individual combat.

We have to use instead of the weapon of criticism, the criticism of weapons.