Jim Butcher Quotes

Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.

I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.

I'm useless with a sword in real life.

I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!

What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.

There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.

I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

When I was young, I was trained in stage fighting and rapier and dagger for several years.

The gladiators always look for additional ways to demonstrate their skill.

There are a lot of fighters, when I fight them, they stay hit forever and never fight again.

I'm 17-0 in the UFC. I'm unbeaten in MMA.

I'm not a good katana user, bo staff user.

only to people!' shouted Rincewind. He drew his sword and, with a smooth overarm throw, completely failed to hit the troll.

If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.

I’d seen him fight before, but it never got old. He was captivating. He never stopped moving. Every action was graceful and lethal. He was a dancer of death.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

Her kung fu is that powerful.

Our business in the field of fight, Is not to question, but to prove our might.

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war may inform the mind, and improve a necessary, though pernicious, science. But in the uniform and odious pictures of a general assault, all is blood, and horror, and confusion . . .