fighting quotes

I’m committed to the fight game.

I’m going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I’m going to change the game. I’m going to change the way people approach fighting.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Battle is an orgy of disorder.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.