Quotes on Fight

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.

Author: Floyd Abrams

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

Author: Alfred Adler

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

Author: Alfred Adler

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Author: Muhammad Ali

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

Author: Lucille Allard

I don't like to fight.

Author: June Allyson

I never met a man I didn't want to fight.

Author: Lyle Alzado

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

Author: Anthony Anderson

I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.

Author: Alexis Arguello

If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58 fights, so I really appreciated what I was fighting for and for whom as well.

Author: Alexis Arguello

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

Author: Alexis Arguello

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

Author: Michael Barnes

The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.

Author: Otto Bauer

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

Author: Paul Begala

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

Author: George Berkeley

We have to fight sometimes to survive.

Author: Jan Berry

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.

Author: Vinoba Bhave

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

Author: John Boehner

When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight.

Author: Michael Bolton

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

Author: Omar Bongo

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Author: Bjorn Borg

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

Author: Carol Braun

The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

Author: Joe Briggs

You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

Author: Matthew Broderick

First fight. Then fiddle.

Author: Gwendolyn Brooks

When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.

Author: Paul Broun

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

Author: Corrine Brown

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.

Author: John Buford

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

Author: John Burns

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

Author: Scott Caan

I've got a little fight in me, but I think that's good.

Author: Scott Caan

Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live.

Author: William Campbell

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Author: Karel Capek

You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.

Author: Helena Carter

Must not fight simply to win; no holds barred is not the way; you must win by the rules.

Author: John Chambers

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Author: Jesus Christ

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

Author: Roy Cohn

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

Author: James Corbett

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Author: Pierre Corneille

The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence.

Author: Gregory Corso

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

Author: Norman Cousins

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.

Author: George Crook

I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song.

Author: Ken Curtis

I don't fight the suburban areas or collar counties. I get along with them; they're former Chicagoans anyway.

Author: Richard Daley

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

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

Author: Christopher Dodd

Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.

Author: Lloyd Doggett

If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.

Author: Jimmy Doolittle

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars.

Author: Shannon Elizabeth

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

Author: Jon English

If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.

Author: Robert Englund

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

Author: Harrison Ford

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

Author: George Foreman

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

Author: George Foreman

This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

Author: Joe Frazier

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

Author: Ace Frehley

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

Author: J. Fuller

Don't fight forces, use them.

Author: R. Fuller

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

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

Author: Victor Garber

I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.

Author: Gina Gershon

I've never had to fight hard for anything I've gotten in the past.

Author: Tyrese Gibson

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

Author: Daniel Goleman

I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Author: Ulysses Grant

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

Author: Heinz Guderian

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

Author: David Guterson

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

Author: Robert Hamilton

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

Author: W. Harriman

When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.

Author: Salma Hayek

I'm going to fight again because this wasn't a fight.

Author: Thomas Hearns

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

Author: Thomas Hearns

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

Author: Adolf Hitler

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

Author: Geoffrey Holder

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Author: Billie Holiday

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Author: Lou Holtz

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Author: Edgar Howe

Those who live are those who fight.

Author: Victor Hugo

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

Author: Brett Hull

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

Author: Patricia Ireland

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

Author: Alija Izetbegovic

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

Author: Joan Jett

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Author: Mary Jones

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Author: Mother Jones

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Author: Mother Jones

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere.

Author: Tommy Jones

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

Author: Chief Joseph

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

Author: Lionel Jospin

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Author: Franz Kafka

Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF.

Author: Anatoly Karpov

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

Author: Elia Kazan

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

Author: William Kempe

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

Author: Thomas Kempis

In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.

Author: Nikita Khrushchev

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.

Author: Klaus Kinski

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.

Author: Horst Koehler

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

Author: Joe Krauss

In my opinion, terrorism is a question which is not a short- term problem for all of us. It is a long-term fight. And NATO can play, and will play, a very crucial role in this struggle.

Author: Aleksander Kwasniewski

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

Author: Michael Landon

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

Author: James Larkin

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

Author: Rick Larsen

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

Author: Ang Lee

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.

Author: Sugar Leonard

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

Author: Sugar Leonard

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out.

Author: Lennox Lewis

Mankind invents things to fight about.

Author: Mike Love

I am happy to have now as Danny finally a more difficult role, in which I can shoot and fight.

Author: James MacArthur

I really fight for my privacy.

Author: Kyle MacLachlan

For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder.

Author: Hermann Maier

I still have more to fight for in the coming years.

Author: Hermann Maier

When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

Author: Hermann Maier

It's been so long since I was in a real fight.

Author: Method Man

As part of our renewal - we need to fight problems, not just wait for them to take place.

Author: Nong Manh

I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

Author: Rocky Marciano

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Author: Bob Marley

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

Author: Wynton Marsalis

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

Author: George Marshall

It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the size of the fight in the dog.

Author: Barry McGuigan

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

Author: Al McGuire

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Author: Golda Meir

The man who runs may fight again.

Author: Menander

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.

Author: Christina Milian

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

Author: John Milius

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

Author: Arthur Miller

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

Author: Marc Molne

Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe.

Author: Roy Moore

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

Author: Cillian Murphy

We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

Author: Yoweri Museveni

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

Author: Don Nelson

Never fight an inanimate object.

Author: P. O'Rourke

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.

Author: Benjamin Orr

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

Author: George Orwell

They've been talking about Pi, which I haven't seen, they've been comparing it to Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense, and Fight Club, and I didn't see that either.

Author: Joe Pantoliano

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

Author: Floyd Patterson

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Author: George Patton

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Author: Luciano Pavarotti

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.

Author: Nancy Pelosi

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.

Author: Matthew Perry

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

Author: Mark Pryor

I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders.

Author: Mark Pryor

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

Author: Vladimir Putin

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland.

Author: Ziaur Rahman

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Author: Carl Reiner

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.

Author: Rick Renzi

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.

Author: Tim Robbins