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Quotes About Fighting

'This guy's a clown! He's just all talk!' I've heard that many times in my career. And then they're sleeping in the middle of the octagon.
~ Conor McGregor
I judge people, and myself, when you are up against it. When you've been beaten like that you have to find out who is alongside you, you roll your sleeves and come out fighting and those are my principles.
~ Steve Bruce
Kimbo Slice is a character in a world of energy when it comes to the art of fighting.
~ Frank Shamrock
I will always be prepared for the ground. That's my home, that's where my success started. That's always going to be my biggest strength. But all fights start on the feet; I'm prepared to slug on the feet.
~ Diego Sanchez
I prefer to fight a bigger guy. I don't like fighting smaller guys; they give me problems with their agility.
~ Tyson Fury
Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'
~ Wanderlei Silva
I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.
~ Mindy Kaling
If I ever get into the BKB, yeah, it would be fun. I never really liked the gloves in the UFC anyway. So, I think it's better. You got to pick your shots. You got to be smarter.
~ Diego Sanchez
Dumb and tough goes a long way in this sport but to be elite, you've got to be smarter.
~ Michael Chiesa
I don't know what other fighters do, but when I get hit and go down, I smile and I say, 'I'm going to hit you harder than you hit me, and I'm going to knock you out.' The times I go down and get back up - that's when I'm the most dangerous.
~ Naseem Hamed
I would love to fight someone like Dominic Breazeale next year. Him or the Polish guy, Adam Kownacki. That's more of an entertaining one. I love watching him fight. He smiles while he's fighting and I think that's the coolest thing to watch.
~ Chris Arreola
I had to fight in K-1 in Japan to make a living between fighting and doing commercial work over there, and it's been a roller coaster in a sense, but it's been a smooth one.
~ Shannon Briggs
You only get so many opportunities to fight at the top level and stay at the top level.
~ Johny Hendricks
I've fought injured so many times for so many years.
~ Israel Adesanya
I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
I took so many years off my fighting career arguing with Dana, trying to get a fight with Shogun Rua, not trying to fight this guy, trying to do all this stuff. At the end of the day, it didn't really matter much. I just lost time.
~ Rashad Evans
I spent so much time fighting that I didn't take the time to reflect on what I was actually going through.
~ Isaac Wright Jr.
Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that possesses revolutionary force.
~ Michel Foucault
Everything that has meaning is the result of struggle and sacrifice, and is worth fighting for.
~ Michio Kaku
Each one of them was a potential warrior, capable of facing the battle within himself, but they'd all devoted too much energy to fighting outward battles instead. They would have to confront their own lies.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Love is a battle, said Marie-Claude, still smiling. And I plan to go on fighting. To the end. Love is a battle? said Franz. Well, I don't feel at all like fighting. And he left.
~ Milan Kundera
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
~ Milan Kundera
Love is a battle? said Franz. Well, I don't feel at all like fighting. And he left.
~ Milan Kundera
Sabina once allowed herself to be taken along to a gathering of fellow emigres. As usual, they were hashing over whether they should or should not have taken up arms against the Russians. In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting. Sabina said: Then why don't you go back and fight?
~ Milan Kundera