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Quotes About Fighting

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
~ George Santayana
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
~ Anne Fortier
Fighting for men back then, I think, was just more a way of life, especially if you were a soldier obviously.
~ Channing Tatum
That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.
~ George Best
Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.
~ George R. R. Martin
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally.
~ George S. Patton
Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.
~ Louis L'Amour
Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
~ Muhammad Ali
I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.
~ Paul Gauguin
Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.
~ Homer
Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.
~ John Steinbeck
If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.
~ Rickson Gracie
Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting.
~ Josh Koscheck
The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I'm really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt.
~ Ronda Rousey
I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head
~ Amanda Palmer
Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves.
~ Phyllis Diller
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
~ Anchee Min, Red Azalea
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
~ Michael Bloomberg
I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.
~ Juliette Binoche
When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.
~ Muhammad Ali
By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.
~ Frank Grillo
I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.
~ Mike Tyson
Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!
~ Nathan Hale
I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.
~ Emmanuel Jal