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Quotes About Fighting

I just fight like myself. I'm like a cat - if I see the opening, I'm going to shoot for it. I think what stands out is my accuracy.
~ Ryan Garcia
I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
~ Larry Kramer
In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.
~ Manly Hall
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
~ Robert C. Maynard
My men don't surrender. I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back.
~ George S. Patton
Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
[Wladimir] Klitschko is a different kettle of fish to Haye. He is a genuine man with an excellent team behind him and they are genuine fighting people.
~ Tyson Fury
But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
~ Martha Gellhorn
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
~ Neil Sheehan
There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.
~ Enson Inoue
Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.
~ Groucho Marx
I can't spare this man, he fights!
~ Abraham Lincoln
Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Have you ever felt a desert-like lonliness, facing all the lions, hyenas and snakes of your imagination, with no weapon, no partner, nothing but silent, ugly, harmful aloe vera plants all around you? Giving up will only means death, while fighting, means death too..
~ The wise Pharoah Moe
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I have always been fond of Josh Billings's remark that "it is much easier to be a harmless dove than a wise serpent." There are plenty of decent legislators, and plenty of able legislators; but the blamelessness and the fighting edge are not always combined. Both qualities are necessary for the man who is to wage active battle against the powers that prey.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Most certainly prize-fighting is not half as brutalizing or demoralizing as many forms of big business and of the legal work carried on in connection with big business.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
One of the prime dangers of civilization has always been its tendency to cause the loss of virile fighting virtues, of the fighting edge. When men get too comfortable and lead too luxurious lives, there is always a danger lest the softness eat like an acid into their manliness of fiber. The
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Time and again in the Middle Ages, warrior-kings, seen by their men in the thick of fighting, turned the tide of battle, assuring victory.
~ Thomas Asbridge
It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.
~ Sharice Davids
When you fight someone, it's different. It's a lot of conflict that you can have. Once you fought somebody, that's it. There's not much to it anymore. You went in there, you settled it like men, one on one, and that's it. After that, I don't think there's really a point to kind of carry it with you, any of that negativity.
~ Artem Lobov