Fight Quotes

"Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world"

Eugene V. Debs, Politician

"Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them"

Mark Hoppus, Musician

"I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that"

Keith Haring, Artist

"You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time"

Marvin Hagler, Athlete

"In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed"

Marvin Hagler, Athlete

"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, Athlete

"There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action"

Harry Bridges, Activist

"You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture"

Brett Somers, Actress

"I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny"

Zell Miller, Politician

"To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight"

Thomas Foran

"Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over"

Stevie Nicks, Musician

"The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions"

Paul Signac, Artist

"Terrorism is a big danger to Pakistan's independence. We will fight this danger for the sake of independence of Pakistan and will defeat it at all levels"

Shaukat Aziz

"I fight fairly, and in good faith"

Edmond About, Novelist

"Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience"

Ang Lee, Director

"I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes"

Abigail Van Buren, Journalist

"I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion"

Thomas Hearns, Athlete

"And still the time, especially in the economy, is very tough, very difficult. It's necessary to be active still, to work, to fight, to make our economy more competitive"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out"

Robert Englund, Actor

"I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name"

Martha Stewart, Entertainer

"Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations"

Lionel Jospin, Statesman

"Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"Mankind invents things to fight about"

Mike Love, Musician

"It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in"

James Wolcott, Critic

"The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out"

Lennox Lewis, Athlete

"I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song"

Ken Curtis, Actor

"In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first"

Kay Granger, Politician

"What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?"

Kate Millett, Activist

"Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality"

Joe Manchin III

"Hitler had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs"

Hutton Gibson, Writer

"Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race"

Charles Hamilton Houston, Lawyer

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide"

Henri Barbusse, Novelist

"I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written"

Dana Carvey, Comedian

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