Fighter quotes
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
-- Adolf Galland -
We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as fighters - as interceptors. And out of this fifty, there were never more than 25 operational. So we had only a very, very few.
-- Adolf Galland -
You seen it, was it as pretty as me?
-- Adrien Broner -
I smiled, danced and cried my way out.
-- Adrien Broner -
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Everybody saying Guerrero, I'll really turn your ***** into a real ghost.
-- Adrien Broner -
You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.
-- Agatha Christie -
As much as a disappointment this was, I can only learn from it and become a better fighter.
-- Alexis Davis -
I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.
-- Analeigh Tipton -
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I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.
-- Anastacia -
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
-- Anchee Min -
I'm just excited that the fans are going to get their money's worth, and you can't say that a lot of the times.
-- Andre Ward -
I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.
-- Andre Ward -
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What you gotta understand is, in this conversation and in our fight, you're not in control.
-- Andre Ward -
You can still entertain without getting a knockout.
-- Andre Ward -
It's not about size, it's a science.
-- Andre Ward -
I told myself that I'll do everything within my power to never let that happen again.
-- Andre Ward -
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He's built up to be invincible and no man is invincible, any man can be knocked out.
-- Andre Ward -
Trainers give of themselves. So, I learned and I projected it with my fighter.
-- Angelo Dundee -
Any fighter didn't like Muhammad Ali should have his head examined.
-- Angelo Dundee -
I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.
-- Anne Lamott -
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He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.
-- Antonio Tarver -
In the face of adversity, you find out if you're a fighter or a quitter. It's all about getting up after you've been knocked down.
-- Archie Griffin -
Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.
-- B.J. Penn -
I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
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I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
The streets was basically my parents.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.
-- Bernard Hopkins -
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I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.
-- Billy Joel -
Manny Pacquiao is the best fighter I've ever seen
-- Bob Arum -
The bull-fighter has merely demonstrated that he is a butcher with balletic tendencies.
-- Brigid Brophy -
Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
-- Budd Schulberg -
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I used to be a fighter and I'm used to taking weight off.
-- Burt Young -
My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
-- Cara Castronuova -
I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.
-- Cara Castronuova -
A Fighter gets up... No matter what.
-- Cara Castronuova -
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I knew it was all or nothing.
-- Carl Froch -
Ricky Hatton would knock Khan out. 5 years ago or now.
-- Carl Froch -
You've got to be careful against classy fighters, especially counter-punchers because if you go for the finish too early, you can end up getting finished yourself.
-- Carl Froch -
I've got no aspirations to become an A-list celebrity.
-- Carl Froch -
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Bute coming over here is a big mistake.
-- Carl Froch -
It's not Beirut or Bosnia.
-- Carl Froch -
I'm personally not a Muhammad Ali fan.
-- Carl Froch -
When you’re the best fighter in the world today, they don’t call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.
-- Chael Sonnen -
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I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.
-- Clay Guida -
We're in this band, the Foo Fighters, making music for the love of music. We all came from bands that had disbanded, and we were drawn to each other because we missed playing.
-- Dave Grohl -
I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.
-- Dave Grohl -
You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.
-- David Haye -
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I'm not a big fan of being a victim. I don't like getting beaten up.
-- David Haye -
I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.
-- David Haye -
Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties.
-- David Haye -
I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!
-- David Haye -
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He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me.
-- David Haye -
I said that I was gonna smash him in three rounds, and that's what I did.
-- David Haye -
I can do what I want. And I always do, do what I want.
-- David Haye -
Enzo get up you're making me look bad.
-- David Haye -
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I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.
-- David O. Russell -
It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium
-- Dick Trickle -
You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.
-- Dinaw Mengestu -
Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'.
-- Don King -
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I feel much better to give than to receive. That's why I'm much more happier now as a coach than I ever was as a fighter.
-- Duane Ludwig -
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
-- Elia Kazan -
You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
-- Elizabeth Edwards -
I was a big fighter when I was younger. In bars I was ready to explode and fight.
-- Emir Kusturica -
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
-- Fatos Nano -
Spaghetti is no food for fighters,
-- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -
The ladies kept telling me I wasn't good in bed, so I figured if I wasn't a lover then I must be a fighter
-- Forrest Griffin -
By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.
-- Frank Grillo -
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We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.
-- Friedrich August von Hayek -
My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
-- Gabby Douglas -
The greatest fighter I ever saw
-- Gene Tunney -
I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.
-- George Foreman -
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I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
-- George McGovern -
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
-- Gerald Seymour -
Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
-- Gerry Cooney -
I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.
-- Gina Carano -
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I am what I am. A fighter.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
Fighters have to be optimists.
-- Greg Jackson -
I didn't want to be like a punch-drunk fighter, going around and reliving the big moment...
-- Greg Noll -
You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.
-- Herman Gorter -
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I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
-- Hope Solo -
The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never be attacked in force. If we are moderately strong we shall probably be attacked and the attacks will gradually be bought to a standstill. . . . If we are weak in fighter strength, the attacks will not be bought to a standstill and the productive capacity of the country will be virtually destroyed.
-- Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding -
We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.
-- Hugo Chavez -
Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.
-- Hugo Pratt -
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
-- Jack Dempsey -
A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
-- Jack Dempsey -
I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.
-- Jake Ellenberger -
I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
-- James Stockdale -
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I have always been ready to fight anybody out there, anytime, anywhere. I will knock them all over. My talent speaks for itself.
-- James Toney -
I don't like you. Why you walk up on me dawg!?, I don't like you, I don't like you.
-- James Toney -
Get Julian Jackson in here baby!...Julian Jackson, winner take all baby, that's all I gotta say, winner take all! Arghhh!
-- James Toney -
I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it gets the best of you no matter how you manage it.
-- Jeff Gordon -
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I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.
-- Jim Lampley -
He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
He's a sore loser and he lost the fight.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
If I would've fought Andre Ward in my prime, I would've beat him.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
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The Eubank fight was my hardest fight.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
Lacy was a pleasurable fight. It wasn't my hardest fight because I won every single minute of every single round.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
My lowest points was getting injured and pulling out of fights.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.
-- Joe Calzaghe -
