Combat Training Quotes

My uncle, my dad always made sure I had guard skills. But as far as defending everybody, that wasn't really my mindset until my rookie year.

I think ninjas are probably quieter than SEALs, but we are better swimmers, and also better with guns and blowing things up.

Nobody wants to be trapped inside that cage me. They don't want to be cut by my elbows, they don't want to get hit by any of my kicks and they don't want their conditioning checked by me.

He is a butcher, and is not fit to be at the head of an army.

I would like to have had that experience of combat. I would have liked to.

While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie.

The Green Berets of U.S. Special Forces 5th Group - known as 'the Legion' - who led the anti-Taliban campaign represent a textbook case of a successful Special Forces campaign.

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

I love training and I love being able to kick ass.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

Combat duty is strenuous and physically demanding, and I'm not the first person to notice that men and women are built differently. And while many will argue that women will only be allowed into combat arms units under the same requirements as their male counterparts, count me as skeptical.

Hey, I took karate when I was 17 years old; I am dangerous.

People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

I'm an entertainer. I love to fight.

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other young men into a battlefield where one of them will die. And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be killed.

I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

The U.S. military is known the world over for its advanced technology as well as the prowess, skill, and dedication of its service members. When you grow up in the company of its leaders, as I did, you understand that this greatness is something that is cultivated.

I have no problem putting on a kit, carrying a big sniper rifle, and running a few thousand meters.

I'm a vale-tudo fighter.

When I got out, there weren't too many job opportunities for snipers.

Eighteen years doing this, my friend. Eighteen years - combat sport. I think you will not find this in history, I believe.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.