Quotes About Combat

around at his side and flailing back

Which all might have worked, if Reacher had stayed down a step. But he didn't. They charged and he stepped back up to where he was before, and he kicked the nearest guy in the face. And then he twisted and hit the left-hand guy with his elbow, and twisted again and hit the right-hand guy with the same elbow coming back. Gravity and New Hampshire granite finished the job.

Then Chang fired. Full auto. Nine hundred rounds a minute. Impossibly fast. A brief blur of sound, like a manic sewing machine. Two seconds. A whole mag. Dirt stitched up in a line and a splinter of wood blew off the building.

wrestling with the brawler's

Combat is about time and space and opposing forces. Like a huge four-dimensional diagram. First step is misinform the enemy. Let him think your diagram is a completely different shape. You assume all communications are penetrated, and then you use them to spread lies and deceit. You buy yourself an advantage

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from The Art of War by Sun-tzu: To fail to take the battle to the enemy when your back is to the wall is to perish.

The soldier from the West is fairly predictable. One can surmise what a German or a French or Italian group of men will do under certain circumstances. However, the Russian soldier is an Asian, an oriental of sorts and he is completely unpredictable by Western standards. He will fight like a wild man on a given day. On another day, under the same circumstances, he will break and run.

One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

But how did you fight an enemy who never fought fair? Didn't you have to break the rules to win against the Devil?

Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.