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Fight Quotes


"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight."


"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."


"If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot."



"Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition."


"My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories."


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


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


"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."


"I was not fighting myself at all as I used to."


"We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that."


"We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle."


"There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals."


"If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down."


"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."


"Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt."


"It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French."


"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."


"We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia."


"Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight."


"When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight."


"Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must."


"There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great."


"But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting."


"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."


"When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight."


"Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight."


"I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that."


"I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that."


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


"I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight."


"In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine."
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