Fighter Quotes

I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

If you try your best, you can always be better.

I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.

Everybody was happy my brother was locked up. Not me because I know what it feels like to be in there. It ain't made for everybody, but I knocked a lot of blocks down.

I never been a fighter that goes in thinking of defeat. I always go in thinking about winning. I prepare myself to win every time I step in the ring and to give the fans what they want. The results, sometimes don't matter to me. But as long as the fans are entertained with a good fight and enjoy watching me fight, that's all I can do. Just doing the best I can and have the results be what they are.

Everyone wouldn't just accept that I wanted to be a fighter - because I wasn't someone that they envisioned could or would be a fighter.

I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.

I don't deal in frustration. I'm a fighter. And everything I've ever gotten, I've had to fight for.

I'm a fighter. I'm a warrior. I'll fight anybody.

Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

Every fighter has to go in there with a game plan.

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

I would say that all successful people are "fighters." They're passionate and determined. They see not only what they want out of life, but what they were built for, and fight for it.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

If you're the best then take the test!

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

I could do what a lot of people are doing and that's sign the best Nicaraguan fighters and then sell them to Don King, but there's no way I'll do that.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.

You talk about me, I am chicken to fight you. That's not true. I bring you dessert on November 12th.

My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty pleasure is everything MMA. Ultimate Fighter is amazing.

That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.

For anybody here who's very worried about domestic priorities, just consider we have created, with this war on terrorism, more fighters, more countries embroiled. They're learning new weapons. They're learning new techniques. They're coming here in social media. The lone wolf thing is expanding. And once that blows here, then forget about domestic priorities.

t's important to handle and learn from your defeats. The losses I've had taught me so much because they humbled me. You learn more from them than you do your victories. They can only make you a better fighter and a better man.

I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.

When you heard Jimi Hendrix, you knew it was Jimi Hendrix. He introduced himself with his instrument. His attack to a guitar man, was, oh, something else! You think of one of the great American ball players, or one of the great fighters of the world, you know, that's the way he would attack any note on his guitar.

No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.