Fighter Quotes - Page 21

• It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Arrogant, Bulls, Care

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• Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Dwelling, Mind

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

  Jack Johnson

  Character, Fighting, Battle

  "Interview with The Legends of Boxing Part 1". Interview with Monte D. Cox, coxscorner.tripod.com.

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• Most of this film, however, is about interpretation - are these people terrorists or freedom fighters? Are they good or bad? Is cutting timber good or bad? And I don't feel like the answers to those questions are simple, so we don't try to answer them for the audience. I wanted to elicit the strongest - and most heartfelt - arguments from the characters in the film and let those arguments bang up against the strongest arguments of their opponents.

  Marshall Curry

  Character, Cutting, Simple

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• I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.

  Roberto Duran

  Fighting, Born

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• I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.

  Jake Ellenberger

  Needs, World, Beats

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• I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.

  Martha McSally

  Pilots, Firsts, Decided

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• There's round-winners, and there's fighters.

  Nate Diaz

  Winner, Rounds

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• I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic.

  Rocky Graziano

  Growing Up, Fighting, East

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• For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

  Michael Koryta

  Book, Thinking, Rivers

  "Koryta details murder, a panther and a dangerous woman". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. June 5, 2011.

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• People think by challenging me they're going to show they're tough. But I'm not tough. Decent drinker. Not such a bad kisser. But not a great fighter.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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

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• I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

  Lola Alvarez Bravo

  Cameras, Fooling Around, Streets

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• Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of an artist, or a great book flows out of an author.

  Ray Arcel

  Art, Book, Flow

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• To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Live Life, Successful

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• Break the rules. Be a fighter. Any dream is possible if you are brave enough to do it YOUR way.

  AJ Lee

  Dream, Brave, Way

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• Actors aren't fighters. They don't know how to throw a punch. So, there's a lot of hitting in the face. I'd much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don't like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Hurt, Fighting, Actors

  "Aaron Eckhart Talks ERASED, the Appeal of Spy Thrillers, His Physical Preparation for the Role, I, FRANKENSTEIN, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 17, 2013.

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• When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to make something of it. I always thought fighting was fun, so I joined a gym and took it serious. I never actually thought I would be a real fighter, though. But I began to excel on the local circuit and I did well for myself.

  Brad Tavares

  Fun, Real, Fighting

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Promoters compete for fighters, fighters compete for titles.

  Carlos Newton

  Titles, Promoters

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• In response to the escalating violence in Iraq, President Bush is delaying the return home of 25,000 troops and will actually add reinforcements to the south. Then in a symbolic gesture he pulled down the mission accomplished banner, put on a flight suit, walked backwards to a jet fighter and flew it in reverse off an aircraft carrier.

  Tina Fey

  Home, Iraq, President

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• Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

  Che Guevara

  Brother, Fighting, Order

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brother, Father, Struggle

  Ronald Reagan (1989). “Speaking my mind: selected speeches”, Simon & Schuster

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• I think it is love of that blue vault of sky that becomes your playground if, and only if, you are a fighter pilot. You don't understand it if you fly from A to B in straight and level, and merely climb and descend. You're moving through the basement of that bolt of blue.

  Robin Olds

  Moving, Thinking, Blue

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• As a youngster, I read of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction. And as a fighter pilot, I observed the selection of the Mercury astronauts. All this was fascinating, but I really didn't think I would ever be a part of it. It was only when my good friend Ed White was selected as a Gemini astronaut that I decided to join NASA as part of the Apollo program.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Good Friend, Thinking, White

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I'm a lover, not a fighter. No battles for me.

  Jason Mraz

  Battle, Lovers

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.

  Jack Johnson

  Art, Boxing, Important

  Source: www.boxingforum24.com

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