„It was like fighting a billy-goat, butt and run. I was saved by the jab. No jab and we would have lost it.“

„An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.“

—  Lee Child British thriller writer 1954

„It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.“

—  Ansel Adams American photographer and environmentalist 1902 - 1984

Sheff
David
May 1983
Playboy
http://davidsheff.com/article/ansel-adams/
Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams
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„He was never in one spot for more than half a second, all my punches were aimed and timed properly but they always wound up hitting empty air. He'd jump in and out, slamming me with a left and whirling me around with his right or the other way around. My arms were plastered with leather and although I jabbed, hooked and crossed, it was like fighting an octopus.“

—  Harry Greb American boxer 1894 - 1926

Former boxing great Gene Tunneyhttp://coxscorner.tripod.com/greb.html

„He was never in one spot for more than half a second, all my punches were aimed and timed properly but they always wound up hitting empty air. He'd jump in and out, slamming me with a left and whirling me around with his right or the other way around. My arms were plastered with leather and although I jabbed, hooked and crossed, it was like fighting an octopus.“

—  Gene Tunney American boxer 1897 - 1978

On Harry Greb, as quoted in "Harry Greb, The Human Windmill...“A Perpetual Motion Machine.”" by Monte D. Cox http://coxscorner.tripod.com/greb.html

„I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.“

—  Manny Pacquiao Filipino boxer, basketball player, singer and politician, dancer. 1978

Conference Call before the "Blaze of Glory: Pacquiao vs. Solis"
As quoted in "Manny Pacquaio/Bob Arum Conference Call Transcript," http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=10519&more=1 at East Side Boxing (2007-07-04)

„5344. Valour would fight, but Discretion would run away.“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : Courage would fight, but Discretion won't let him.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

„I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself.“

—  Lois McMaster Bujold, Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

„Men fight when they should run, and fools fight when they should run. But I had no need to say it twice.“

—  Robert Jordan American writer 1948 - 2007

Faile Bashere
(15 October 1991)

„Moving fluidly and jabbing, slipping punches and countering rather than swarming over DeJesus, he stalked him, relentlessly wearing him down and coolly destroying him with savage punches to the body. For 11 rounds Duran bested the classic boxer at his own game, robbing him of his speed and his will to fight, and only then did he permit himself the luxury of putting DeJesus away.“

—  Roberto Durán Panamanian boxer 1951

Sports Illustrated, 30 January 1978 http://coxscorner.tripod.com/duran.html

„I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.“

—  D.J. MacHale American television director and producer 1955

„Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.“

—  Adlai Stevenson mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN 1900 - 1965

Speech to the Los Angeles Town Club, Los Angeles, California (11 September 1952); Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952), p. 31

„To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind…but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless—except the one we’re fighting now?“

—  Tad Williams novelist 1957

Zdroj: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 13, “The Fallen Sun” (p. 314).

„My policy has always been the same. We're fighting ISIS and Assad is fighting ISIS, but we're backing rebels to fight Assad. You can't fight everybody, you have to pick who you want to fight. And now you've got Turkey, who like ISIS more than they like others, no one really knows because we don't have people that know what they're doing. So in my opinion, you go along, and Russia does not like ISIS, and people are starting to find out. I mean in all fairness lost an airplane, got blew out of the air. So Russia is not a fan of ISIS. Russia is bombing the hell out of them, starting to bomb them. I say isis is our number one threat. We can't be fighting everybody at the same time. ISIS is our number one threat. I would bomb the hell out of them -- I like to do one thing at a time. I would knock the hell out of ISIS. I would hit them … so hard like they've never been hit before.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

In an interview with Fox & Friends. http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/trump-kill-isil-families-216343 (December 2, 2015)
2010s, 2015

„I thought we could have put up more of a fight. Not that we were going to win, but that we would offer more resistance.“

—  Leopoldo Galtieri Argentine military dictator 1926 - 2003

General Who Led Argentina In Falkland War Is Detained http://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/12/world/general-who-led-argentina-in-falkland-war-is-detained.html, The New York Times (April 12, 1983)

„The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.“

—  Pete Seeger American folk singer 1919 - 2014

NPR: Weekend Edition (2 July 2005)

„I have tried to keep memory alive… I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.“

—  Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016

„I always thought being a Shadowhunter meant that I had to approve of what the Clave did. I thought otherwise I wasn't loyal. I made excuses for them. I always have. But I feel like whenever we have to fight, we're fighting a war on two fronts. We fight the enemy and we fight the Clave, too. I don't--I just don't know how I feel anymore.“

—  Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments

Alec Lightwood, to Jace, Clary, Simon, and Isabelle, pg. 435
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

„I am convinced that we face a great offensive immediately," "We have lost more than 400 killed and 300 wounded since Nov. 5 and now the Japanese have handed an ultimatum to me. I know we are not strong enough to fight. But we must hold our own, until Death!“

—  Ma Zhanshan Chinese politician 1885 - 1950

[CHINA-JAPAN: Hero Ma, TIME, 23 November 1931, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742656-2,00.html]

„I am a Land Leaguer myself, and I would not be a Land Leaguer if it had anything behind it like revolution. I would fight against it.“

—  James Daly (Irish Land League) Irish nationalist activist with the Irish National Land League 1838 - 1911

: Daly to the Bessborough Commission 1880.
Zdroj: Moran 1994, page 195