Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Chuvalo

I think you reach your full potential by fighting often enough against varied types of opponents. This makes you a complete fighter.

George C. Marshall

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

Christian Kane

You win the fight by fighting.

Chris Rock

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

Chris Hadfield

Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.

Gilbert Arenas

When something drastic happens in our life, one person goes and hides and doesn't want to be seen. That's what I did. [Others] want to stand up and fight and think they're tough. Like if someone gets shot, you're either scared of guns or you think you're Superman. In my situation, I wanted to hide. I didn't want to be seen anymore.

Gilbert Gottfried

One thing I can take credit for, along with the rest of show business, is when the red ribbons were out, we cured AIDS. Any advancements that came towards fighting AIDS were not done by scientists or doctors - it was people with little ribbons on their lapels.

Germaine Greer

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Gertrude Stein

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

Gerard Way

In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed. You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

Glen Cook

If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

Georges St-Pierre

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key,

Georges St-Pierre

Before each one of my fights, I make a point of saluting my opponent. I salute the other fighter out of respect, even though he is trying to take something from me.

Georges St-Pierre

I'm always scared when I fight. But that fear is what keeps me more alert and more focused. It's good to have fear.

Georges St-Pierre

There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.

Georges St-Pierre

Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.

Georges St-Pierre

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

Georges St-Pierre

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

Georges St-Pierre

It's easy to talk, it's harder to fight.

Georges St-Pierre

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

Georges St-Pierre

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

Georges St-Pierre

Training to become champion is the toughest thing. The fight itself is just a test.

Herman Melville

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.

Herb Kohl

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

Jenson Button

When you're in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.

Jeffrey Gitomer

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

Jeff Lacy

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles

Jesse Helms

On your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.

Jesse Jackson

Fighting disparities is very significant.

Jesse Jackson

When God rang the bell that ended the fight, the world cried out for one more round.

Jennifer Pahlka

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

Jean Chretien

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.