Robin McKinley Quotes

Being able to adjust - to any fighter, no matter what pressure he can give me - I'm going to show I can do all that.

Any fight, if you prepare correctly and you're ready for it, you should be just there to enjoy it.

There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.

There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.

I think the troops deserve the best equipment on the battlefield, the best training, and American armor if they get in trouble.

Lesnar is a bully. I'd hurt him and show him that he couldn't hurt me. That doesn't sound too technical, but in a fight with Brock Lesnar, you need to go after him.

I like to keep a high pace, violent fight. I don't like to waste time, and I don't like to go to the judges. I feel like I've fought long enough where I can adapt to just about any situation.

If you start throwing eight or nine shots, you're going to get caught - bang - and the fight could be over.

OK, if he's a grappler, good for me, I know what to do. If he's a kickboxer, I gotta get in a clinch and move a certain way. If he's a karate man, he moves a different way, but I'm still going to have to clinch. So, a sumo wrestler, I have to clinch. It's just, how I get there, how I move it.

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our starboard broadside on him as he passes below us, and then I want to cut down across his stern and stick it right up his kilt. Clear? (Honor Harrington)

I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.

Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.

When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.

Attack the enemy's strategy.