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Quotes About Combat

The special army, skipper, isn't just any old unit. It's not some shitty shield-bearers who just need to be shown which end of the javelin pricks. A special army has to know how to fight like nobody's business!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
In Kaer Morhen you were taught how to kill like a machine, instinctively.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
He swiftly pins his blade then draws a complicated and quick sign in the air
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
He cuts the flat head from the body of the idr
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Their leader had no real knowledge of warfare or tactics. I was only a stubborn man and that was my greatest advantage in this fight.
~ Andy Andrews
World War II sea mines
~ Andy Griffiths
They were prepared physically and mentally for war. They'd all had at least nine lives, and had the burns, the dents, the bullet holes and the knife wounds to prove it.
~ Andy McNab
The Shield Bug was happy. It had an enemy. It had a sword. Soon the sword would meet the enemy. Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.
~ Angie Sage
this was how women fought. With civilized words carrying poison.
~ Ann Cleeves
I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
~ Naftali Bennett
I just come to fight. Whatever happens out there happens.
~ Nick Diaz
Machida always has his elusiveness and whatnot and Shogun has the tools to beat him.
~ Ryan Bader
Melvin Guillard went to a split decision with me, he left the third round in a wheelchair. He did not walk to the back - he left in a wheelchair.
~ Justin Gaethje
There's, like, a little move back in the 'Halo' days, whenever you were getting chased, if you went around a corner and the guy followed you, and you jumped over his head and, like, backsmacked him. It was called like 'the ninja.'
~ Ninja
It's up to the UFC, but I'll fight whomever, whenever. Minus maybe Vegas.
~ Henry Cejudo
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.
~ William Morris
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
~ F. Sionil Jose
I got cut against Groves, and I couldn't see out of my eye most of the fight but it didn't hurt. Groves probably weighed 13 1/2 stone whereas I weighed 12. But he never buzzed me. It was just that cut, which looked so bad, with blood everywhere.
~ Chris Eubank Jr.
Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We'll adapt, we'll train, we'll advise, we'll mentor, and we'll fight, and we'll fight well.
~ Jim Mattis
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
I think it's stupid to say a guy who has trained in jiu-jitsu for as long as I have is just a stand-up fighter. I have trained with some of the best black belts in the world. I am comfortable on the ground. I can fight wherever the fight goes and not be concerned.
~ Mirko Cro Cop
Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!
~ John Cena
He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.
~ Max Baer