Applicable Quote by Kris Holden-Ried

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

— Lisa Kleypas

Creativity is the essence of fencing.

— Charles Allen

As a Muslim youth, though I played a variety of sports growing up in New Jersey, my parents were in search of a sport…

— Ibtihaj Muhammad

“There is no fencing term I’m aware of for drawing a pistol and shooting your opponent in the face, but that was what it…

— Andrew Rowe

Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from…

— Mary Pilon

Im a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.

— Bruce Dickinson

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

— Herman Wouk

Fencing is a game of subtlety, and bluff can be met with counter-bluff.

— Charles L De Beaumont

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

— Neil Diamond

Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sporting limitations and its proscriptions against…

— Scott Lynch

The essence of fencing is to give, but by no means to receive.

— Moliere