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Quotes About Fighting

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'
~ Richard Sherman
You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for survival and they need names and faces and ticket sales.
~ Richard C. Armitage
As a pro, in the beginning, I had to sell tickets to get paid. So you gotta be a hustler, and you gotta worry about fighting.
~ Brian Ortega
During the surge in Iraq, we were able to roll back the tide of al-Qaeda and associated insurgents because we succeeded in mobilizing Iraqis - especially Sunni Arabs - to join us in fighting against the largely Sunni extremist networks in their midst.
~ David Petraeus
'Crouching Tiger,' of course, was a very dramatic role for me, and the fighting was very serious.
~ Michelle Yeoh
49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.
~ Burt Ward
Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don't like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That's why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.
~ Shinsuke Nakamura
Fighting is a way to feel, an anti–video game, a way to force some-thing to happen. That's what brought me back to it, because when I've fought someone, I know something has happened. How many days of your life pass you by that you could take or leave? When nothing really happened?
~ Sam Sheridan
The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,For want of fighting was grown rusty,And ate into itself, for lackOf somebody to hew and hack.
~ Samuel Butler
These were children who were nimble enough to get around any kind of barrier and hungry enough to try, despite the danger and the very real repercussions if they were caught looting. Sophie drew in a sharp breath. "There's something I didn't miss, children fighting over the chance to get killed.
~ Sara Donati
I'm not angry." But he forced his fists open and counted ten slow breaths, fighting it the way he always did. Because what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.
~ Sara Pennypacker
Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking
~ Mike Tyson
I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.
~ Jill Scott
In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
~ David Suzuki
Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.
~ Britney Spears
We recognize the reality of the marketplace. We're fighting to win, and that's what we're going to do. This is not the time to hide.
~ Anne Stevens
the entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such peril mattered, that it did more than just make sense but demanded his suffering and sacrifice.
~ Mark Bowden
Have you been reading anything in the paper about Hue? It is supposed to be big news in the states. Well that's where I am. It is supposed to be some of the worst fighting that has been fought in the war. If it isn't it will be plenty for me. I can't really say how bad it has been. We've lost a hell of a lot of people. . . . This house to house fighting is a son of a bitch. I've never been so scared in all my life.
~ Mark Bowden
although it is true that after three weeks of heavy fighting the enemy was driven off, it was the impact of the initial blow that resonated most loudly.
~ Mark Bowden
Fight the fever. Fight it, and, if necessary, go down fighting. The courage would not go unrewarded, would it? That is to be seen, she thought. But, meanwhile, there was no question – she would fight.
~ Mark Helprin
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
~ Mark Twain
Why are we fighting? We're fighting because we're soldiers. That's simple enough, isn't it? For what cause are we fighting? Simple again. We're fighting to protect our country, and, in a wider sense, the whole of the English-Speaking Union. From whom? No concern of ours. Where? Wherever we're sent. Now, Foxe, I trust all this is perfectly clear.
~ Anthony Burgess
But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? I am serious with you, brothers, over this. But what I do I do because I like to do.
~ Anthony Burgess
The reality is, if we are being honest with ourselves, we all make emotional decisions about our investments. We are all emotional creatures, and even the best traders in the world are always fighting the inner fear.
~ Anthony Robbins