Fighter Quotes - Page 34

• That's why I wrote 'Fighter'. I have that need in me to help people. I am all about the underdog.

  Christina Aguilera

  People, Underdog, Needs

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• Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Clouds, Ice

  "Buzz Aldrin, Moonwalker, Says Us Must Aim For Mars". Interview with James M. Clash, www.livemint.com. May 24 2013.

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• It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

  Emilie Autumn

  Depression, Suicide, Inevitable Death

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• I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

  Michele Bachmann

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• I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter. A fighting for what people believe in, whether it is popular or not. Despite the opposition, I stand true. Because people know that I will do what I say. And that I say what I do.

  Michele Bachmann

  Believe, Fighting, Thinking

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• When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Games, Buttons, Gamer

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.

  Herman Cain

  Hurt, Presidential, Campaigns

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• My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

  Eric Cantona

  Ancestor

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• Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

  Ted Cruz

  Liberty, Voters, Conservative

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• Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.

  Roberto Duran

  Style, Wheels, Standing Out

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• You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

  Clint Eastwood

  Long, Want, Quitting

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• You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Survivor

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• You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

  Eminem

  Fighting, Men, Sound

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• I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

  George Foreman

  Boxing, Shapes, Nervous

  "Hungry for more". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2004.

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• I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Foo Fighters, Ifs

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• I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

  Dave Grohl

  People, Playing Music, Audacity

  "I've never gotten off on chaos". Interview with Keith Cameron, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Even though the outcome wasn't the way it should have been, publicly I still feel in my heart I won the Sugar Ray Leonard fight.

  Marvin Hagler

  Heart, Fighting, Should Have

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• There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.

  Marvin Hagler

  Sports, Media, Order

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• A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Running, Fighting, Men

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If someone were to ask whether communications skills or meekness is most important to a marriage, I'd answer meekness, hands down. You can be a superb communicator but still never have the humility to ask, 'Is it I?' Communication skills are no substitute for Christlike attributes. As Dr. Douglas Brinley has observed, 'Without theological perspectives, secular exercises designed to improve our relationship and our communication skills (the common tools of counselors and marriage books) will never work any permanent change in one's heart: they simply develop more clever and skilled fighters!

  John Bytheway

  Clever, Communication, Book

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• If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

  Anchee Min

  Mother, Fighting, Womb

  Anchee Min (2012). “Red Azalea”, p.77, A&C Black

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• In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

  Umberto Eco

  War, Fire, Flames

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• Itt iss Eevill…" "What is going to happen?" "Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!"… "And we’re not alone, you know, children," came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. "…some of the best fighters have come from your own planet…" "Who have our fighters been?" Calvin asked. "Oh, you must know them, dear," Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who’s spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Light, Darkness

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• All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.

  George S. Patton

  Jobs, Real, Hero

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Stories, Fists

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