Quotes About Combat

I had many fights in Pride, many battles there.

You have to be prepared for the best in every fight.

I understand why my mum and my wife can't bear to watch me fight. There's a lot of blood, a lot of pain.

I expected Ronda to be a beast. You know what? Ronda's a beast.

You can't beat somebody with nobody.

Being able just to worry about what it is I do best, going in there and beating somebody up, getting my hand raised - that's what I really like doing.

If you hold the belt, you have to fight anybody.

And, critically, Jackson had spoken in the vernacular of hope and of unity to combat fear and disunion. To him it was a father's role—and a president's.

A willingness to wage constant partisan combat, no matter what the issue, was an emerging requirement in the politics coming into being in the 1830s. Party

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight!

War! We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight.

A shared narrative future -- as expressed in such statements as Yes, I'll come to the picnic next Friday -- defines socially shared predictability of behavior. Prolonged contact with the enemy teaches that predictability is fatal . Being unpredictable is a basic survival skill in combat, where the enemy is ever observant. Many of the veterans in our program take different routes to the clinic every time they come.

Combat trauma destroys the capacity for social trust, accounting for the paranoid state of being that blights the lives of most severely traumatized combat veterans.

Fighting spirit, a ringing term that broadly refers to a soldier's readiness to move in on any enemy rather than flee or freeze, is essential for survival in combat...however, the folk culture of the American military, especially during the Vietnam War, merged fighting spirit with being berserk. Leadership beliefs encouraged the conversion of grief into berserk rage as a militarily desirable consequence.

Men become mothers to one another in combat. The grief and rage that they experience when the special comrade is killed appears virtually identical to that of a child suddenly orphaned, and they feel that the mother within them has died with the friend.

A soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.

For these reasons, the trade of a soldier is held the most honorable of all others, because a soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill, in cold blood, as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.

Así combatieron los héroes, tranquilo el admirable corazón, violenta la espada, resignados a matar y a morir'.

Al primer vislumbre del amanecer el combate murió, como si fuera obsceno o espectral.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

One more spin around the sun... Ain't nuthin' changed. Still got trouble on my mind. Still got suckas that need to get dealt with... Still in mortal combat with the wicked....

Perhaps," the half-breed admitted. "But why fight when there is no need? Why fight just for its own sake? That is not fighting to save anyone, or to win anything, or even for glory. It is fighting from sheer bloodlust, from love of violence alone. And I am sick of that. I want no part of it.