Quotes About Combat

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

Most combat is not a hand-to-hand knife battle that the person who can do the most push-ups is going to end up winning.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

I watched guys who were professional fighters hit each other 30 times, and it still didn't go anywhere. I thought 'that wasn't very effective' But I saw if you got someone in a choke, you can end a fight in seconds, and I pushed toward that.

If someone pushes me, they're getting knocked out. They're going to get in a fight.

MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.

One time, I fought 90 fights in 90 days in 90 different places around the world. I didn't even know who I was: about 45 or 50 in, they just kept pushing me, and that's when I really get into a lot of trouble.

The Brazilian circuit is very different. There are no easy fights, every gym only puts in their best guys to fight.

I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.

When I am in the ring, all I think about is knocking my opponent's head off, getting him out of there. Hurting him. Putting pain to him. I will have no mercy. I will have no pity.

That's the reality of boxing - it can be over in a flash.

The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.

Obviously I would fight Floyd, sure. Well, with him, with Manny or with whomever. That's why I am a fighter.

I was the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 in combat, and I got to land on aircraft carriers.

Many don't think that there are women serving in combat roles. Others think that women who do serve in combat shrink in fear when the bullets fly. I know differently.

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

Working on 'X Men,' I got to do a lot of flying and fighting, which was good fun.

I'm fighting the best guys in the world... I would be a fool to think I wouldn't leave with a little blood and a few scrapes here and there. You've gotta learn how to like that stuff.

Froch is like a train who just comes forward but Groves will move about, fake and feign and his good footwork is a big part of his game.

A lot of people might sit back and watch Dominick Cruz doing his footwork, and say, 'Oh, Dominick Cruz just dancing around, and he runs away.' It's a totally different atmosphere until you get in there, and you actually experience it.

When I was fighting, there was no boxing in Saudi Arabia because it was forbidden.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Some of the fighters I've boxed, I've forgot their names.

I'm a 'come forward' kind of guy, I will never fight any other way and I don't think I could learn anything different either.