Larry McMurtry Quotes

There is something of the warrior in me.

I guess I'm just a natural warrior.

Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

The man who runs may fight again.

You're a warrior or you're not.

This is why people love to watch me, is because I fight. I'm here to fight. I'm not here trying to protect anything, not trying to protect a legacy or anything. I'm here to fight.

I love to battle with the best of them.

I'm a warrior.

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.

Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, Live to fight another day

She shrieks above the din. "If you wish a battle, I shall give it. I am the last of my kind. I shall not lie down without a fight.

I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

He who flees will fight again.

I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.

Well, I'm still breathing.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

I've been fighting my whole life.

The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.

‘Tis better to have fought and lost, Than not to have fought at all.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

I've been fighting since I was 15. I know what war is.

I'm a warrior.

I'm just a fighter.