Mercedes Lackey Quotes

I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

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.

Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

Fighting is great, but I can't do it forever.

Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.

I have a pretty high fight IQ.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

When you fight on set, you try to not hurt anybody.

I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

I only direct in self-defense.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

You can just fight one man at a time.

No I don't miss fighting, I still got my wits about me and there are a lot of people who do it and get beat up, and I don't want to be one of them, I have children to raise.

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

I've learned that, bizarrely, I enjoy having a fight. Obviously nobody likes getting hit, but I don't have a problem with it. In MMA you've got to take a few hits to reach the right position.

I'm not a violent person, but I'm a capable person. I'm never looking for a fight. But I'm always ready for one.

My only goal ever in a fight was to go in there and create chaos. Now, I want to control the chaos that hate's created. I want to fight in the right spots.

Fighting is what I do.