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Quotes About Fighting

The striking game is always a lottery game, so I prefer to take the safe situation. Submission is the best for me. I'm the guy looking for it all the time.
~ Demian Maia
Yeah, I want these fights where people are going to stand in front of me and I'm going to knock them out. But is that going to be best for me in the long run? Probably not. I want those situations and knockouts and submissions against guys who won't just give them to me.
~ Travis Browne
Brock Lesnar will never be able to beat me because he has no submission skills. What's he going to do, knock me out?
~ Frank Mir
I've finished fights from my feet, I've finished fights with my ground-and-pound, and I've finished fights from my back with a submission, from top with submission. You name it, and I've finished a fight that way.
~ Frank Mir
I see the takedowns; I see the opportunities to take people down or even try to submit them or something like that. But man, I prefer to stay on my feet. That way I'm confident.
~ Junior dos Santos
I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I'm going to stop him. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'm either going to knock him out or I'm going to submit him. I'm going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.
~ Dustin Poirier
Of course I will submit if I have a chance, but I always prefer to finish a fight in a stand-up position.
~ Mirko Cro Cop
I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.
~ Nate Diaz
As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.
~ Craig Kilborn
Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.
~ Mike Pence
Don't live to fight, fight to live.
~ Tupac Shakur
We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.
~ Tzvetan Todorov
I am fearing because I am seeing that the only way not to be fighting is to die. I am not wanting to die.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Military history reminds us that those who died on behalf of democratic freedom to stop totalitarian killing were a different sort than totalitarians who died fighting against it to perpetuate killing. The sacrifice of the former meant that generations yet born might have a greater likelihood of opportunity, security, and freedom; the latter fought for a cause that would have increased the suffering of future generations.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it.
~ Andre Agassi
North Carolina is an amazing place. It has the best food, and also has folks fighting really hard for what's right.
~ Lizz Winstead
Russians aren't good at haggling, they aren't passionate about business. But they are outstanding fighters.
~ Sergey Karaganov
I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.
~ Michael Schumacher
We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back, a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?
~ Philip K. Dick
You have a fighting spirit. I admire that, or would admire it should you choose to harness it to a worthier cause than that of someone considered a criminal subversive by his own national government.
~ Philip Roth
Are we allowed to go armed? asked Pagan If you like, said Belder, though I cannot see even you fighting your way through a thousand Sathuli! I don't want to die without a weapon in my hand. Bravely spoken! said Scaler. I will take this apple. I don't want to die without a piece of fruit in my hand. Will you put a stop to this talk of dying? It's extremely unsettling!
~ David Gemmell
They kept fighting, even after we were gone. Or especially because we were gone. They kept fighting for us. We are gone and maybe our spirits are gone too, as the ones who knew us stop remembering us so often, or come to join us. But the spirit of that strengh it carries through.
~ David Levithan
Some dead with fighting faces and eyes flung wide open in wonder. Death had found them watching, trying to see beyond seeing.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism.
~ Mj Rodriguez