I go hunting for my opponents high up the field, and I put…

The great ones are about winning and winning only.

— Skip Bayless

I'll always respect my opponents, but there will be no high-fives or shaking hands or smiles there.

— Gilbert Burns

But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks…

— Anonymous

“Under the Republic dueling was forbidden, but it was not in the German character to forego a custom so dear to our young fire-eaters…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“No doubt a majority of the duels fought have been for want of moral courage on the part of those engaged to decline.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might…

— Jules Verne

I can't win all my duels or be perfect all the time.

— Jordi Alba

“It was a damned near-run thing, I must admit,' said Jack, modestly; then after a pause he laughed and said, 'I remember your using…

— Patrick O'Brian

Sometimes pitchers' duels are just as interesting as home-run affairs.

— Cris Collinsworth

“Brave men don't fight for nothing, like children.' protested Howell's (Major Joe Howell) friend. 'We want to know what we are fighting about. If…

— Herbert Asbury

“True, duels were fought by convention at dawn in isolated locations to ensure the privacy of the gentlemen involved. But were they fought behind…

— Amor Towles

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little…

— Thomas Carlyle

I've been involved in more Georgian period duels than I ever thought I would in my life.

— Rege-Jean Page

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him…

— Mark Twain

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

— Charles Caleb Colton