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Quotes About Fighting

The greatest thing about fighting a guy like Dave Rickels: He always comes to fight.
~ Michael Chandler
I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.
~ Chris Weidman
I trust the team around me to guide my career in the right direction, I just do the fighting.
~ Kell Brook
With the way things are going now in the UFC, you have to be ready to fight anytime they call you. During war times, you have to keep your guns always clean.
~ Wanderlei Silva
It doesn't mean much to me if I'm behind or not in a fight; the fact is that I hold these guns in my right and left hands.
~ Naseem Hamed
I've fought guys that I like. When you're fighting a guy that you don't like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it.
~ Tim Kennedy
Maybe when I'm done fighting, I'll open a gym and manage fighters and train fighters.
~ Michael Bisping
Some guys are gym fighters, some guys are better in the ring.
~ Chuck Liddell
As an amateur, we used to fight people from the same gym. You'd spar with each other and then fight each other in championships.
~ Amir Khan
I think everyone envisions what their life would be like if they were to live in this post-apocalyptic world. I love the idea of fighting every day to live, because it kind of applies to gymnastics; I feel like every day I need to be in control and focused and stay on edge.
~ Sam Mikulak
I have a bad habit of fighting to the level of my competition.
~ Tommy Morrison
Don't look , part of his mind said. If you don't see trouble, it doesn't exist. But it does , thought Arthur, fighting down the fear. Keep breathing slowly. You have to confront your fears. Deal with them .
~ Garth Nix
Although men doubtless continued to punch each other for fun and bragging rights, the sport as such didn't formally resurface until the late seventeenth century, in Great Britain.
~ Gary Belsky
It isn't equipment that wins the battles; it is the quality and the determination of the people fighting for a cause in which they believe.
~ Gene Kranz
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy. [Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience ]
~ George Bernard Shaw
men never really overcome fear until they imagine they are fighting to further a universal purpose—fighting for an idea, as they call it. Why was the Crusader braver than the pirate? Because he fought, not for himself, but for the Cross.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I will not profess bravery [...] but I acknowledge a good deal of pleasure in fighting.
~ George Eliot
I fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times, it's a wonder I don't have diabetes.
~ Jake LaMotta
I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?
~ Mindy Kaling
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
~ Ernie Pyle
A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.
~ Gina Carano
There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.
~ Gina Carano
The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin