Quotes About Combat

I've nothing against a man being scared as long as he does what has to be done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ being scared can keep a man from getting killed and often makes a better fighter of him.

A sword?" I was astonished. "It is a man's weapon.

The object of battle was the destruction of the enemy's capacity to resist.

but two shots, and then it was the knife until death.

arm was seized and he was thrown over Fallon's back with a flying mare. He hit the ground with a thud and Fallon fell upon him, a knee driving into his solar plexus as Fallon came down, then that

There was the unspeakable neatness of military preparation for violence

It was the only time in American history a sitting president came under fire in combat.

Quero dizer que nunca ninguém ganhou uma luta denfendendo-se. Para vencer, é preciso atacar.

Quero dizer que nunca ninguém ganhou uma luta defendendo-se. Para vencer, é preciso atacar.

He'd taken out one of them with well-placed elbow strikes and got another guy in a leg lock that probably wrecked the son of a bitch's knee for life, but Alec had no finesse with that last moron. He just slammed that fucker's head on the concrete and grounded-and-pounded with all he had. Might have killed him. Wouldn't

The meaning of my star is war.

They did not hang medals, in those days, on all who by accident had heard a gun fired.

Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war - this is pest control! Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you? Dalek Sec: Four. Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks? Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect. Cyber Leader: What is that? Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.

One can hardly find elsewhere than in Japan techniques of mysticism pursued without the reward of the consummating mystic experience and appropriated by warriors to train them for hand-to-hand combat.

We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.

People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch. A

The world contemplates the great spectacle of combat and death, which is difficult for it to imagine in the end, because the image of war is not communicable – not by the pen, or the voice, or the camera. War is a reality only to those stuck in its bloody, dreadful, filthy insides. To others it is pages in a book, pictures on a screen, nothing more.

Eros invencible en el combate, que te ensañas como en medio de reses, que pasas la noche en las blandas mejillas de una jovencita y frecuentas, cuando no el mar, rústicas cabañas. Nadie puede escapar de ti, ni aun los dioses inmortales; ni tampoco ningún hombre, de los que un día vivimos; pero tenerte a ti enloquece.

Mounted infantry can't force each other to fight, because the other side can just trot off. But we can make him fight, because we don't have to stop and get off our horses to shoot.

Here we come upon a terrible facet of ethically asymmetric warfare: when your enemy has no scruples, your own scruples become another weapon in his hand.

Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.