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Fight Quotes


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


"Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know."


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



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


"I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever."



"Then I did one fight scene, and they said it looked good. Because I did it well enough, they've given me more."



"I quit my band in New York City in 1969 and I got really angry at them. I got angry at one of my guitar players and I dove over the drum set and we got into a fight."



"Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up."


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


"We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other."


"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round."



"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."


"The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting."


"My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow."


"I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs."



"I've seen a lot of highs and a lot of lows with this team, and one thing I've learned is that even though you have lows, you're not going to have them forever, so you've got to keep fighting."


"If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever."


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


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



"I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter."


"'m a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them."


"We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!"


"The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite."


"All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can."


"Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy."



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



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



"We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them."


"To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."


"Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot like fighting him. He would fake you in and then he'd drop you."


"The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it."



"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."



"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."


"There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words."



"Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself."
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