Best Fighter Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 18

“You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.”

People World Want Looks Littles Two Fighting Next Sports Fellows International Fighter Soccer Boxing Mayweather World Famous Floyd Mayweather Pacquiao

Author:Emanuel Steward

“The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.”

“The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never be attacked in force. If we are moderately strong we shall probably be attacked and the attacks will gradually be bought to a standstill. . . . If we are weak in fighter strength, the attacks will not be bought to a standstill and the productive capacity of the country will be virtually destroyed.”

Ifs Should Country Strong Force Capacity Weak Destroyed Fighter Productive Aviation Defence Air Power Airpower Standstill

Author:Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

“During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.”

Has Beens Used Air Effects Battle Decided Fighter Sufficient Britain Bombs Aviation Lasting Superiority Carrier Bombers Air Power Airpower Battle Of Britain

Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

“To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse.”

Use Air Achieve Arms Horse Fighter Aviation Superiority Inadequate Carts Bombers Air Power Airpower

Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

“There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.”

“Like the fighter, the Warrior is aware of his own immense strength; he never fights with anyone who does not deserve the honor of combat.”

Life Doe Inspiration Fighting Power Strength Honor Deserve Fighter Warrior Combat Immense

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again... Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.”

Ifs Men Life Remember Fighting Winning Loses Freedom Return Rewards Fighter Liberation Sincere Dauntless Forewarned

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

“Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters”

Way Should Fighting Fighter Favoritism Refs

Author:Roberto Duran

“Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.”

Company Wise Partners Fighter Promotion Cuba Representing

Author:Roberto Duran

“I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it”

Thinking Trying Looks Fighting Walks Fighter

Author:Marvin Hagler

“I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.”

Lasts Money Doctors Trade Lawyer Fighter Managers Mechanic Electrician

Author:Muhammad Ali

“I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.”

People Knows Way Ideas Dies Painting Innocent Instance Fighter Paradise Flags Contrast Contradictory Medieval Bin Laden Foreheads Freedom Fighter American Flag Theocracy Cairo Benghazi

Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.”

Has Beens Liberty Greater Threat Conservative Hungry Fighter Voters Principled

Author:Ted Cruz

“I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.”

Fighter

Author:Anastacia

“Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind.”

Source: Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds

“Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'”

Ifs Crime Weapons Murder Victim Jew Fighter Planes Gypsy

Author:Noam Chomsky

“To me, Hewitt and Nadal would be the best spirited fighters I've ever seen on the tennis court.”

Would Be Court Fighter Tennis Being The Best Spirited Tennis Courts Nadal

Author:Mats Wilander

“It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.”

Knows Stills Humor Funny Know How Fighter Planes Bombs Squares Locks Triggers Missiles

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”

States Dream Earth Mother Black Sleep Six Died Miles Fighter Nightmare Wet Belly Fur Turrets

Author:Randall Jarrell

“The Fighter was about a family struggling to overcome and fighting each other sometimes, and I went back and rewrote this script which I had written for my son initially because my son has mood disorder.”

Sometimes Fighting Struggle Written Son Overcoming Scripts Mood Fighter My Son Disorder Fighting Each Other Mood Disorders

Author:David O. Russell

“I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.”

Western Rounds Iraq Flying Fighter Desert Pilots Syria Egypt Greece Hurricanes Flew Libya Fighter Pilot

Book:Boy: Tales of Childhood

Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood

“A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.”

Knows World Said Two War Fall Fighter War Of The Worlds Aviation Broads Categories Combat World War Ii Pilots World War I Hunters Hunted Aces Fighter Pilot

Author:Nathan Farragut Twining

“You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.”

Machines Died Breaths Despite Fighter Aviation Bottles Combat Steel Oxygen Hollow Vacuums Chilled Canopy Cockpit

Book:The Hunters

Source: The Hunters

“The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.”

Enemy Sky Duty Areas Fighter Aviation Combat Pilots Rubbish Fighter Pilot Fighter Jets

Author:Manfred von Richthofen

“Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter.”

“Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.”

Ifs Fundamentals Caught Mood Fighter Shooting Aviation Combat Pilots Aggressiveness Fighter Pilot

Author:David McCampbell

“The air battle is not necessarily won at the time of the battle. The winner may have been determined by the amount of time, energy, thought and training an individual has previously accomplished in an effort to increase his ability as a fighter pilot.”

May Has Beens Individual Energy Ability Effort Air Amount Battle Training Increase Determined Fighter Winner Accomplished Aviation Combat Pilots Fighter Pilot

Author:Pappy Boyington

“The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill, the fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.”

Firsts Order Air Position Superiors Opening Fighter Opponents Aviation Combat Hunters Prey Stalking Unnoticed

Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

“Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in B17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.”

“If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation.”

Ifs Action Powerful Position Picks Rate Valuable Lists Fighter Aviation Combat Aggressive Pilots Traits Formation Aggressiveness Fighter Pilot

Author:Charles H. MacDonald

“There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.”

Ifs Teach Risk Willing Fighter Aviation Combat Pilots Fighter Pilot

Author:Robin Olds

“An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.”

Needs Sides Successful Weapons Luck Fighter Excellent Being Successful Aviation Combat Pilots Fighter Pilot

Book:The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

“To be a good fighter pilot, there is one prime requisite think fast, and act faster.”

Thinking Fighter Faster Aviation Prime Combat Pilots Good Fight Fighter Pilot

Book:The look of eagles

Source: The look of eagles

“Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!”

Lessons Ass Fighter Kicks Aviation Combat Pilots Slides Fighter Pilot

Author:Ron McKeown

“The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.”

Modern Hero Fighter Aviation Combat Pilots Closest Aces Fighter Pilot

Author:W. H. Auden

“To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!”

Eye Luck Extraordinary Fighter Aviation Combat Occasional Agility Aces Recklessness Eyesight Coolness

Author:Jimmy Doolittle

“The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.”

Firsts Important Too Much Victory Important Things Fighter Shock Aviation Combat Pilots Fighter Pilot

Author:Werner Molders

“It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.”

Source: The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945

“As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.”

Thinking Knows Long Running My Own Luck Surprise Fighter Aviation Combat Pilots Daring Long Runs Fighter Pilot

Author:Adolf Galland

“The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.”

People Self Force Levels Majority Iraq British Fighter Delusion Racist Occupation Uniforms Self Delusion

Author:George Galloway

“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.”

“I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.”

Fighter Officers

Author:James Stockdale

“No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.”

People Men Littles Past Passion Prayer Greater Player Failing Fashion Tears Praying Singers Fighter Pastor Revival Prayer Life Wrestler Organizer Revival Prayer Intercessors

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.”

Knows Ends Three Minutes Rounds Fighter Seconds Good Fight

Author:Jack Dempsey

“In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing for the fights he lost. Jack Dempsey said that in his early days he was knocked down a lot of times and he usually was tempted to stay down because he knew that no one would hit him again until he started to get up. But Jack was a hungry fighter and he knew that if he was going to eat, he must get up in order to get the two dollars. He tells of one occasion when he was knocked down 11 times in one fight, and 11 times he got up in order to win the $2.”

Ifs Said Two Order Fighting Winning Lost Losing Paid Dollars Hunger Hungry Temptation Get Up Fighter Occasions Contracts Tempted Knocked Down

Book:This Nation Under God

Source: This Nation Under God

“People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport.”

People Needs Wells Art Hands Hate Fighting Sports Walks Ultimate Violent Hey Fighter Opponents Shakes Martial Arts Rooted Sensei Dojo

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.”

Life Fighting Keys Evolution Wise Words Fighter Mma Efficient Accurate Efficiency

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.”

Purpose Artist Fighting Goal Differences Training Perfection Train Fighter Martial Arts Martial Artist

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.”

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