Fighter Quotations | Page 2

I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.

He was too nice a guy. He just didn't have the dirty, nasty, mean streak fighters should have. That hurt him a lot as a fighter.

He will be the kind of president that our country deserves and our times demand. He will be the principled fighter for all the American people.

He's continuing the fight he began in 2004. He wants to make it very clear he's a fighter who is going to continue to fight for his agenda.

He's been a fighter his whole career. He has had major injuries that never finished him, and that's what we saw this year. He just didn't give up.

I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.

James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.