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Quotes About Combat

You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other dumb bastard die for his.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Winston Churchill had once famously pointed out that nothing in life was as exhilarating as being shot at without result.
~ Douglas E. Richards
The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." —Sun Tzu, The Art of War
~ Douglas E. Richards
The great martial artist Bruce Lee had once commented, "If someone comes at you with a sword, run if you can. Kung Fu doesn't always work." In
~ Douglas E. Richards
If you're able to stun and disable someone hell-bent on killing you, you don't continue running. You make sure they stay down. Period.
~ Douglas E. Richards
George Patton, who had said, "You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other dumb bastard die for his.
~ Douglas E. Richards
The great martial artist Bruce Lee had once commented, "If someone comes at you with a sword, run if you can. Kung Fu doesn't always work.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?
~ Douglas Jerrold
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
~ Douglas MacArthur
You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his
~ Douglas MacArthur
We need to lose less often in the fight against the bad guys. Or, at least, lose more gracefully and recover quickly.
~ Douglas W. Hubbard
The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El Filibusterismo)
~ Dr. Jose P. Rizal
I guess we'll try the old fashion way!" "Alright Kakarrot you're asking for it" "Rock, Paper!...ready! rock, paper, scissors, ha!" "Yea I did it!" "That's not the fusion technique!
~ dragon ball z
We Mandalorians have a saying," Canderous explained. "A warrior who doesn't hope for battle has no hope during battle.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Dutch evangelist Corrie ten Boom said, "It's a poor soldier indeed who does not recognize the enemy." The key to victory in both natural and spiritual warfare is to clearly identify the enemy, and to understand his character and methods.
~ Dutch Sheets
People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
~ Mike Tyson
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
~ Plato
He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
~ Adolf Hitler
I've been training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu all my life. Boxing, kickboxing. I'm definitely not a fighter, but I defend my honor.
~ Spencer Pratt
He's got one of the best chins I've ever hit in my life. I was catching him and he was smiling at me, he was eating them. He's a great fighter, he'll be champion one day.
~ David Haye
Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.
~ Jeff Cooper
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
~ William Ralph Inge
Briefly, prayer warfare simply means holding unceasingly the power of the "finished work of Christ" over the hosts of evil, in their attack upon some place or person, until the victory is won. Just as Moses lifted his hands stedfastly until the victory was won, so the prayer warrior holds up stedfastly the victory of the cross—the finished victory of Christ over Satan—until the forces of evil retreat and are vanquished.
~ Jessie Penn-Lewis