Fighter Quotes

• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Past

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• Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Pairs, Panties

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• The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Army, Opportunity

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.12, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Sports, Fighting, Hockey

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• Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Peace, Freedom

  "George Carlin: Doin' It Again", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Trying, Prove, Dies

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• As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Cheating, Justice

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

  Barry McGuigan

  Hurt, Heart, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

  Billy Joel

  Lovers

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• Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

  Roberto Duran

  Motivational Sports, Boxing, Guy

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• In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Life, Fighting, Keys

  Twitter post from Mar 15, 2011

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• There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Peace, Fear, Spring

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• I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

  James Stockdale

  Officers

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• Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.

  Marvin Hagler

  Sports, Art, Mean

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• Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.

  Adolf Galland

  Passion, Ties, Track

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.

  Cole Younger

  Long, People, Peculiar

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• A man is never too weak or too wounded to fight. If his cause is greater than his own life.

  Oenomaus

  Life, Fighting, Men

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• I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

  Larry Holmes

  Hard Work, Killers, Mercenary

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• I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

  Adolf Galland

  Russia, France, Norway

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• I'm a lover not a fighter.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Romantic, Basketball

  Song: The Girl Is Mine W Paul Mccartney, Album: Thriller, 1982

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• All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

  Larry Holmes

  Boxing, Pimp, Promoters

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• That’s me, man – I’m a lover not a fighter.

  Wayne Wonder

  Men, Lovers

  "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org.

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• Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Book, Fighting

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• Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.

  Michael Schenker

  Fighting, Band, Splits

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• Even if you are sick, you fight until you have nothing left.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Sick

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