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Quotes About Striking

Ronda's got phenomenal grappling, but the way she enters, she's striking her way into the clinch, which is much harder to do on such a dynamic striker with all the movement Holly Holm possesses.
~ Matt Serra
Roots' was the first album on which I recorded a berimbau. After that, I recorded it a bunch for Soulfly and other projects. I really enjoy the instrument even though it's only one string. It's really unique-sounding. It's very striking, and you know right away that it's a berimbau - it's one of a kind.
~ Max Cavalera
MMA has evolved. When you look at an MMA fighter's skill set, boxing has to be a big piece of it. All of them have a boxing coach now and strive to have a good stand-up game, knowing that to be a complete fighter, you have to tend to your striking skills.
~ Scott Coker
Shame to him whose cruel striking, kills for thoughts of his own liking.
~ William Shakespeare
A bomber force of no mean size could be made available, and would feel honoured to share with their American colleagues the dangers of striking at the heart of the enemy.
~ Winston S. Churchill
You look extra beautiful. What the character Charlie in my play calls cripplingly beautiful.
~ Woody Allen
Rose is a very versatile athlete, she works her striking well.
~ Jessica Andrade
The extreme always makes an impression.
~ Jeff Hardy
I know I'm stunning, it's not a secret.
~ Maryse Mizanin
Coming from a standing background in striking, I couldn't catch up to the guys with 20-plus years of training on the ground. I had to learn submissions. I found out it wasn't an easy road. I had six losses in a row, but I still felt I was the best fighter in the world.
~ Mark Hunt
My goal is to go out there and dominate. We all know if I'm in a position and I see my opponent hurt by landing good striking, I'm going to try to get him out of there. If I'm in the top position or in the position to finish by submission, I'm going to look for that. I don't feel the need to prove the haters wrong.
~ Tyron Woodley
I think McGregor is a super fighter, he has great striking, has gotten better with his wrestling, has good jiu-jitsu, and gets a bit tired after the first or second round. I have a strategy to beat him, and I think I would win. I won't say I'd knock him out or submit him, but I know for sure my hands would be raised in the end.
~ Patricio Freire
Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.
~ David Levithan
Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely uninteresting.
~ David Levithan
he's braw and pulchritudinous
~ David Sedaris
She couldn't imagine how she could have forgotten a man this attractive. His features were strong and decisively formed, too masculine to be called beautiful, too striking to be ordinary. And his eyes were the rich sky-blue of morning glories, even more intense against the sun-glazed color of his skin. There was something extraordinary about him, a kind of barely leashed vitality that nearly caused her to take a step backward, the force of it was so strong.
~ Lisa Kleypas
And yes,I was fabulous.
~ Joanne Harris
Wilma stood in front of our table, her crazy bejeweled earrings flashing like lightning. I
~ W. Bruce Cameron
She turned more heads than a coven of chiropractors.
~ Dean Koontz
What kills can't be seen, the Chief had warned Beauvoir. That's what makes it so dangerous. It's not a gun or a knife or a fist. It's not anything you can see coming. It's an emotion. Rancid, spoiled. And waiting for a chance to strike.
~ Louise Penny
I was thinking of starting at the old base in the first film or skipping over that and starting at a new base. We could start on the Ice Planet, which would be striking. We've never been there before, an underground installation in a giant snow bank. Very hostile, with wind blowing around and the cold. They're saying, 'We've got to get rid of the Emperor,' which we never said in the other film.
~ J.W. Rinzler
the most breathtaking and dramatic
~ John Guy
The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. Results, not causes; results, not causes.
~ John Steinbeck
The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes.
~ John Steinbeck