Combat Quotes · Page 3

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

— Francesco Baracca

Always turn and face the attack.

— Adolph Malan

Speed is the cushion of sloppiness.

— William P. Driscoll

I love action. I love stage combat.

— George Eads

“Be tough as a wolf lest wolves eat you.”

— Murray Bailey

I don't feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.

— Conor McGregor

You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.

— Bernard Hopkins

“I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.”

— Sebastian Junger

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

— Ian Somerhalder

If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.

— Anthony Bourdain

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

— William James

“Only one of us will need a boat when this combat is ended”

— Joseph Bédier

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

— Mary-Louise Parker

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

— Hakuin Ekaku

When I served in the military, I witnessed the lack of self defense and combat training.

— Anna Paulina Luna

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base…

— Abdul Kalam

A fight involves the emotion, the strategy of combat. There are many factors connected to a fight.

— Lyoto Machida

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

— James Ira Thomas Jones

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just…

— Mel Brooks

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

— H. L. Mencken

Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it…

— Anonymous

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“In single combat you must not fix the eyes on the details. As I said before, if you fix your eyes on…

— Miyamoto Musashi

They send women into combat without being prepared for women in combat. The men resented them being there, and it was just…

— Mary Gauthier

Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although…

— Homer

We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under…

— Russell M. Nelson

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's…

— Conor McGregor

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to…

— Boyd K. Packer

Like most of the movies I have participated in before, it's not a far departure from my actual self. TJ is a…

— Bill Goldberg

“Today the combat takes a different shape; instead of wishing to put man in a prison, woman endeavors to escape from one;…

— Ira Levin

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias…

— Albert Einstein

She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but…

— Rick Riordan

If she’s out here and not locked up in the barracks, I’ll know,” he said. He took a deep breath and whistled.…

— Melina Marchetta

War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and…

— George Friedman

“In the old days, privilege came with obligations—except for the small class of intellectuals who served a patron or, in some cases,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for…

— Suzy Kassem

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

— Garth Brooks

MARRIAGE, A delightful form of combat where you get to sleep with the enemy;

— Nikhil Saluja

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

— David Foster Wallace