William H. McRaven Quotes

I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Special Operations Forces - such as SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force - who are the United States' elite counterterrorism operators.

The Navy Seals don't travel with 200 people, they wouldn't be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.

Nobody trains 'eye poke defense.'

Most combat is not a hand-to-hand knife battle that the person who can do the most push-ups is going to end up winning.

This is mixed martial arts, so you have to be good at everything.

I'm a vale-tudo fighter.

Once I realised what boxing was, I understood - this is the ultimate form of competition. Once you box you go back to the football field or rugby and it just doesn't have the same spice.

I used to do traditional weapons training, and I wasn't bad with a sword.

I really work on my defense a lot; that's what makes me a good fighter.

When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.

People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them.

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

I love hand-to-hand, and I love putting on these fights; that's the background I come from.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.

I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.

Weapons training, how to clear a room - all that stuff is imprinted into me.

Henri Hooft has made my hands and feet deadly weapons.

The thing is, wrestling is the oldest form of combat known. The cavemen wrestled. And everyone in the American public can understand that.

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

I really should not need to spell this out, but one of the attributes of a successful sniper is that he makes no sound at all - nor, indeed, shouts out warnings!

I've got a height advantage over everyone but when they do get at me I can fight just as well inside.