Fight Quotes

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out"

"Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way"

"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"He who flees will fight again"

Tertullian, Author

"Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious"

Sun Tzu, Philosopher

"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being"

Malcolm X, Activist

"The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises"

Jason Statham, Actor

"I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well.""

Emo Philips, Comedian

"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself"

Patrick McGoohan, Actor

"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion"

Malcolm X, Activist

"My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked"

Alexis Arguello, Athlete

"Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve"

Craig Bruce

"What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do"

Al Goldstein, Publisher

"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men"

Nguyen Van Thieu, Statesman

"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them"

Clara Barton, Public Servant

"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all"

Richard Wright, Novelist

"No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win"

William Howard Taft, President

"If you love your life, you have to fight. If you believe in life and progress and possibilities, you have no choice"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and in thinking about how to fight, survive, and terminate a war, should it occur"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

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