Quotes About Combat

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Each man is a little war.

The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.

When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.

Gurney says there's no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.

Paul crouched at the ready and, as he had been trained to do after first blood, called out: "Do you yield?

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed.

I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.

Paul stood alone now just into the ring, clad in the fighting trunks he'd worn under his stillsuit.

he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior few survived.

A forty-meter section of the hutment had been blasted away there and the selamlik's doors opened now onto drifting sand. A dust cloud hung low over the outside world blowing from pastel distances. Static lightning crackled from the cloud and the spark flashes of shields being shorted out by the storm's charge could be seen through the haze. The plain surged with figures in combat—Sardaukar and leaping gyrating robed men who seemed to come down out of the storm.

A certain amount of killing has always been an arm of business

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood!

The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk

Um dos meios mais eficazes de sedução do Mal é o convite à luta.

Eräs Pahuuden tehokkaimmista viettelykeinoista on kutsua mukaan taisteluun. Se on samanlainen kuin naisen kanssa käytävä taistelu, joka johtaa vuoteeseen.

It's MMA, man, the wild, wild west. You can just expect that anything can happen, and that's just where I'm at with things.

I've been in the ring with the Bronze Bomber, Deontay Wilder. I've tasted his power, and he's tasted mine.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

I like to make people quit. Whether it's because I'm striking them or submitting them, I just want to make them quit. In the war of wills, that's the win.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

That's boxing - one punch can win a fight.

I will fight the fight I need to fight to win.

I never focus on my opponent - I focus more on myself: knowing what my strengths are, where I can take the fight, how I can win the fight, and the intensity that I'm going to bring to a fight.