Fight Quotes

"If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur"

Bram Fischer, Lawyer

"Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us"

Omar Epps, Actor

"The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest"

Oliver Tambo, Politician

"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian"

Ama Ata Aidoo, Author

"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it"

Shakira, Musician

"The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along"

Richard Armitage, Politician

"Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner"

Ravi Shankar, Musician

"There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life"

Harry Bridges, Activist

"Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels"

Yoweri Museveni

"It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog"

Barry McGuigan, Athlete

"I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

"If I had the medical clearance to fight, I would want to fight the best. The best would be Mayweather"

Roberto Duran, Athlete

"I had to fight my whole life to break out"

Hilary Swank, Actress

"I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it"

Henry A. Wise, Statesman

"Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity"

William Manchester, Historian

"We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family"

Star Jones, Entertainer

"I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life"

Stevie Nicks, Musician

"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow"

William McFee, Writer

"I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past"

Tyrese Gibson, Actor

"I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around you people are starving"

Sylvia Pankhurst, Activist

"The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal"

Max Schmeling, Athlete

"I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die"

Mary Roberts Rinehart, Novelist

"Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them"

Lalu Prasad Yadav, Politician

"You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back"

Jon English, Musician

"I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making"

Karl Urban, Actor

"There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back"

John Warner, Politician

"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"

Frank Chodorov, Writer

"I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency"

Deborah Kerr, Actress

"When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!"

Al McGuire, Coach

"We will fight race destruction through thick and thin and never CO exist voluntarily with it"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top"

Alice Foote MacDougall

"The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow"

Veronica Franco, Poet

"My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in"

Phil Foglio, Cartoonist

"America does not fight for land, glory or riches"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him"

Paul Broun, Politician

"We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth"

Neville Chamberlain, Politician

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