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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

  Billy Joel

  Lovers

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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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• 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'm small. I'm petite. But I'm a bit of a fighter inside.

  Felicity Jones

  Petite, Bits

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• Don't fight forces, use them.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fighting, Use It Or Lose It, Architecture

  "Your private sky". Book by Buckminster Fuller, p. 17, 2001.

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• Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

  Elia Kazan

  Fighting, Make Or Break, Break

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• My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Ambition, Special, Want

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• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Islamic, Gun

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Art, Honor

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

  Peter Mandelson

  Quitter

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• Hard work, dedication!

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Hard Work, Dedication

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• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Strength, Leadership

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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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• I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Strong, Boxers, Tall

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Apr 20, 2015

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• In the words of Michael Jackson: I'm a lover, not a fighter.

  Jason Mraz

  Lovers

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• The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Sky, Enemy, Pilots

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• All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Team, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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