Fighter Quotations

As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.

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

I may or may not be the best fighter in the world but I want to be the best entertainer, so when you see my fights before and after, you'll remember my entrance and the fight. When I've walked in there, you'll know I've walked in there!

If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.

When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps

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.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living room or hoarding quarters for that trip to the arcade. And as time moves on, that line of nostalgia will keep moving forward where 'Frogger' gets replaced with 'Street Fighter 2' or 'Resident Evil 4.'

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.

I'm a proud fighter for the little guy and the people of my state who are struggling to make ends meet. That's what Louisiana values are about.

I grew up and I kind of took the road of becoming a pilot, which was another dream I had of flying, and once I did attend the air force academy, that dream of flying became more like a project, and I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which I did. I became a fighter pilot.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

I know that when a fighter is out of the ring for more than two years, when he comes back he isn't the same anymore. Each fighter is different. But each must think, even if something goes wrong, 'I have to make this decision and live with it for the rest of my life.'

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

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.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

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.

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

From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.

I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.

Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.

I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter.

A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

That's me, man - I'm a lover not a fighter.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

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.

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.

Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

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.

He was always sort of a scrappy little kid wasn't he? A bit of a fighter?

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

I wanted to prove I was the best fighter in the world.

Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover because she understood that the struggle for freedom was not only a struggle for political and individual rights but also for economic rights.

Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.

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.

Modeling was a way of financing my fighting. My fighter friends definitely made fun of me: 'I've seen you in your underwear, bro!' But once they realized the girls loved it, they asked, 'How do I get into it?'

From my quarter-a-century experience as a fighter for democracy, there is never a final victory for democracy. It is always a struggle in every generation, and you have to take up the course of time and time again.

I wanted to be the best street fighter in Houston, Texas. And I thought if I got a trophy or two, I'd go back home, and everyone would be afraid of me. I had one fight in '67, the first one. In '68 of October, I was an Olympic gold-medalist, a dream come true, with a total of 25 boxing matches.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song.

They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I'm the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I've ever gotten into the ring with.

When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

Joe Frazier was the epitome of a champion. I mean, here is a guy who was total old school, blue collar, who would fight anybody. You know, he didn't tell you he was the best fighter pound for pound.

I wanted to win the gold medal and then go home and further my education in college. I had no intentions whatsoever to become a professional fighter because I had heard horror stories about former boxers who made money but, in the end, ended up with nothing. I didn't want to be one of those guys.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

I was a tiger, a good fighter, in good shape, but I was always nervous before boxing matches.

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable

I was really very happy to see this from a young fighter who knew that he had a training session in the morning that was more important than anything else.

I grew up in Westlake Villiage, a suburb of L.A. There was a guy there who was a fighter and was like, 'I'll teach you to box.' I started a little bit of boxing, then it crossed over into jiu-jitsu. I was into it for a little while, but then I started doing basketball, baseball, team sports.

My father is hanging in there. The guy is an absolute fighter and walking miracle.

Like his parents, Tristan is a fighter and we know they are going to get through this. Although the chemotherapy treatment is a good way to bring leukemia into remission, doctors and experts alike have said the best chances of survival lie with a successful bone marrow transplant.

One of the things that bothers me most, ... is that very few people really understand what it means to be a fighter. I hate it when I hear someone say, 'That fighter doesn't have guts.' I hate that; it really ticks me off. I don't care if you're a world champion six times over or a four-round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.

Mosley can turn it up and he can turn it down. He knows how to do that. It's a big factor. And people are going to be surprised how strong a fighter Mosley is.

more like a prize fighter than an artist.

Obviously, as a jet fighter pilot, everybody looks forward to the ascent; all that power, you know, that seven million pounds of thrust going uphill.

Reuben is a fighter and that's what we love about him. The offensive line and the tight ends love blocking for the guy because he gives you everything.

My fighter is 100 percent ready and he is just two pounds over the limit yesterday.

Mayweather should have been disqualified. The fighter had a third man in the ring. That is unheard of. The third man was chasing my fighter around. No matter how you look at it the fighter is disqualified.

She's a fighter and I think she did a great job today. I was really happy to see her get out of that.

She definitely hits the ball a lot harder than me, or even than most guys on the men's circuit. She has got unbelievable ground strokes, she is a fighter and not afraid to go for her shots.

Luan is a good fighter who landed many good shots against me. I want to be thee world champion, not just a United States champion and I proved it tonight by coming to Germany and defeating a game challenger. I always fight from will, not always from skill.

She's been through chemotherapy many times and had two or three surgeries over the last 10 years. But she just had such a great attitude. She was a real fighter and she accepted it and knew this was God's plan for her life.

The only meaningful fighter and champion in the super middleweight division is Jeff Lacy, but if Joe wanted to come to the States then we would speak to Frank Warren.

It's like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

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.

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.

A Fighter gets up... No matter what.

Kevin Payne was my friend. His wife and children, we shared quality time together. I will always honor him as my friend, first, and a fighter second.

Kevin was a fighter up to the end, to live, but she wants everyone to know he fought real hard.

He is very talented young fighter and I strongly believe he's capable of beating all his opponents.

He just got too comfortable in there. Any fighter knows, you see a right hand down, you throw that left hook.

I feel like this was a boxing match where one of the boxers does all the training and lifting weights while the other fighter just waits until the day of the fight and gets a lucky punch. I don't feel like they won this game. I feel like we gave it to them. We played well for 39 minutes and gave it away in the last minute.

I give nothing but respect to Bernard Hopkins. He fought very well, and he has proven that he's a tough fighter and a true champion. But right now, I'm the champion. I feel like I am a champion.

I don't think we should count Derek out right now. He's a fighter and one of the leaders of this team.