Quotes on the topic: Fighter


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I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.


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


Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.


A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.


Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.


How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?


People think coming in under the radar is like being a fighter pilot and actually coming in under the radar. It's a completely ridiculous idea to come in under the radar. It's the Olympics; everyone is on the radar here.


I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.


'Gaydamak' in Turkish means a fighter. That's me.


I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.


The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.


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.


I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.


When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.


I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.


When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.


Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.


According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.


I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in 'The Fighter,' not so much in 'The Master' - I think those are different.


Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking. She was one of the leaders of the desegregation of Nashville, basically. She was a student at Fisk University who was one of the founding members of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.