Fight Quotes

"We must see our present fight right through to the very end"

"The situation right after the fight wasn't too good; I believe I'm still the only champion in the world who never received the belt inside the ring once you've won the title. I held that against the English fans for a long time but I felt that also motivated me"

Marvin Hagler, Athlete

"Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone"

David Joseph Schwartz, Businessman

"I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight"

Stephen Baldwin, Actor

"I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight"

Ron Perlman, Actor

"Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane"

J. F. C. Fuller, Soldier

"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch"

Ty Cobb, Athlete

"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers"

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Businessman

"Give me a sword fight any day"

Joseph Fiennes, Actor

"We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together"

Marc Forne Molne, Politician

"I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"I will fight hard to keep my seat in this place, but that will depend on the people who sent me here"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them"

Jesse James, Criminal

"As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds"

Charles Rangel, Politician

"There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man"

Anna Nicole Smith, Model

"As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers"

Daniel H. Hill, Soldier

"After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life"

Taryn Manning, Actress

"Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell"

Lance Armstrong, Athlete

"Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists"

Jurgen Habermas, Philosopher

"I still have more to fight for in the coming years"

Hermann Maier, Athlete

"I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you"

Tom Watson

"I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself"

Ace Frehley, Musician

"But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die"

F. Murray Abraham, Actor

"I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody"

Diego Maradona, Athlete

"Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the country they fought for won't take care of them when they come back? In the time of war our troops and their families are supposed to be our number one priority"

John Salazar, Politician

"Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right"

Crystal Eastman, Lawyer

"Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction"

John Boehner, Politician

"Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight"

Douglas Hurd, Politician

"If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast"

Brett Hull, Athlete

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