Warrior Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 22, 2024
‘If you’re a true warrior, competition doesn’t scare you. It makes you better.’ – Andrew Whitworth
‘A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.’ – David Goggins
‘Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.’ – Miyamoto Musashi
‘Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.’ – Carl von Clausewitz
‘Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.’ – Robin S. Sharma
‘There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.’ – Morihei Ueshiba
‘I don’t believe a champion is the biggest, baddest, meanest dude in the world. I think the champion is like a warrior; it’s like the head knight or lead samurai: humble men of integrity, respect, and honor that treat people kindly.’ – Jon Jones
‘To be exceptional you have to be alone, that’s the life of a warrior.’ – Chris Eubank Sr.
‘To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.’ – Carlos Castaneda
‘I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.’ – Paul Watson
‘Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.’ – Steven Seagal
‘I’m a warrior for the middle class.’ – Barack Obama
‘Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!’ – Pat Riley
‘Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.’ – Tecumseh
‘War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.’ – John F. Kennedy
‘At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She’s a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.’ – Gal Gadot
‘The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people’s opinions.’ – Paulo Coelho
‘I’m a Warrior. That’s who I am.’ – Chris Mullin
‘You’re a warrior or you’re not.’ – Royce Gracie
‘I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.’ – Muammar al-Gaddafi
‘Yeah, I call my warrior spirit the lion.’ – Jimi Manuwa
‘The spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will live forever.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘I guess I’m just a natural warrior.’ – Camille Paglia
‘Resilience is, of course, necessary for a warrior. But a lack of empathy isn’t.’ – Phil Klay
‘Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.’ – Hunter S. Thompson
‘I’m kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it’s at night – so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I’m full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don’t eat anything that you couldn’t find, you know, 10,000 years ago.’ – Ronda Rousey
‘You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren’t mature enough to handle it.’ – Nick Diaz
‘There is something of the warrior in me.’ – Lech Walesa
‘Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I’ve been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, ‘Final Fantasy,’ ‘Dragon Warrior’ and ‘Super Mario’ offered a lifeboat.’ – Brianna Wu
‘It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.’ – Phoebe Waller-Bridge
‘I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.’ – Virat Kohli
‘There are two Mustafa Kemals: one is I, the flesh and bone Mustafa Kemal… the scond Mustafa Kemal I cannot describe with the word ‘I.’ That Mustafa Kemal is not I – it is ‘We.’ That Mustafa Kemal is the enlightened and warrior collectivity that is striving for the new thought, the new life, and the Great Ideal on every corner of this country.’ – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
‘I’m a warrior for light.’ – Thomas Kinkade
‘The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them.’ – August Wilson
‘Flying Squirrel remind me of Ultimate Warrior because he a little rat when he jump in ring like that idiot Jose Canseco or Mel Gibson.’ – The Iron Sheik
‘My dad’s Macedonian, mum Greek… so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.’ – Alexander Volkanovski
‘I would say I’m God’s soldier; a music warrior.’ – Skip Marley
‘Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.’ – Thalia
‘Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with idiots.’ – Richard Dawkins
‘I’m a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.’ – Daniel Day-Lewis
‘Unfortunately, my dad had a brain tumor, and my father-in-law passed away from leukemia, so I spend a lot of time on those two causes. I also tend to support military charities like Warrior Gateway, which helps guys transition from combat back into civilian life.’ – Anthony Scaramucci
‘I’m different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.’ – Johnny Weir
‘The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot’s license, and serve in Congress.’ – Tammy Duckworth
‘The Ultimate Warrior was explosive, confident, heroic, and ready to get into battle. He was a character who had his own set of rules.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.’ – Daniel Morgan
‘I’m not a revolutionary, and I’m not a warrior.’ – Bassem Youssef
‘You don’t have to look like a warrior in every role.’ – Prabhas
‘A journalist who doesn’t bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn’t carry a sword.’ – Lucio Tan
‘A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.’ – C. J. Cherryh
‘The Warriors are a lifestyle. I love every Warrior that stayed. They represented Oakland with pride. I love the Warriors. I love Oakland. I love the people.’ – Lil B
‘A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It’s all about the story, the character, and the course of events in that piece of work and how that character is presented.’ – Katherine McNamara
‘When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again – a romantic warrior. And I think I have those qualities in common with him.’ – Laurence Fishburne
‘If you’re truly serious about your physique and health, in totality, I think you need to pull out all stops. You need to really just hone in on that warrior within.’ – Luke James
‘Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior’s craziness and weird personality and Sting’s coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake.’ – Jeff Hardy
‘I’m kind of a warrior for love, and I wear my heart on my sleeve.’ – Lili Reinhart
‘In archetypes, there is the Nurturer and the Warrior. Different kinds of strengths that, ideally, complement each other and are equally respected.’ – Anne Bishop
‘Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.’ – Miyamoto Musashi
‘I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.’ – Madeleine Albright
‘We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let’s be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let’s take our own hand and say, ‘There, there, sister. You’re doing a good job. I’m proud of how you’re handling all this craziness down here. Don’t give up. Carry on, warrior.” – Glennon Doyle Melton
‘I am part of a circuit called 24 Hours of LeMons, where it’s a sort of riff on 24 Hours of Le Mans. It’s a poor man’s weekend warrior racer event.’ – Michael Trucco
‘Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.’ – Jon Meacham
‘I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.’ – Tecumseh
‘We have an incredible warrior class in this country – people in law enforcement, intelligence – and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.’ – Brad Thor
‘When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.’ – Morihei Ueshiba
‘Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.’ – Georg Brandes
‘When I was growing up, officers in uniform were very impressive to me. They were doing a job. They were protecting our country; they were heroes. When you wear an old military jacket, there’s some sort of connection to those qualities – to being strong, to being tough, to being a warrior.’ – Ralph Lauren
‘I started a novel back in high school. It wasn’t very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn’t too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don’t ever think I’d bother finishing that. It’s just not worth my time.’ – Patrick Rothfuss
‘When ‘The Warrior’ came out, Scandal was no more.’ – Patty Smyth
‘In Mexico, I want to be known as the Aztec Warrior.’ – Henry Cejudo
‘I’m a warrior.’ – James Toney
‘But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.’ – Charles Wolfe
‘Every single girl, whether we want to recognize it or not, is a warrior.’ – Marjorie Liu
‘With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.’ – Bindi Irwin
‘I loved ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’ Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.’ – Michael Ian Black
‘Technically a memoir, ‘The Woman Warrior’ becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.’ – Karen Joy Fowler
‘So many of us can recall growing up with Gene Okerlund as the voice of our childhoods while interviewing the likes of Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage, Sting, and others.’ – Natalya Neidhart
‘The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He’s fighting for a group ethic of some sort.’ – C. J. Cherryh
‘My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General’s band, so that made her important as well.’ – Spike Milligan
‘It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.’ – Gerard Butler
‘My favorite wrestler growing up was The Ultimate Warrior.’ – The Miz
‘I did the Dingo Warrior thing down in Texas in WCCW.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism – tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.’ – Donald Newhouse
‘Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She’s revolutionary; she’s a warrior.’ – Raquel Welch
‘We knew that Erik Morales was a great warrior and he was going to give a great fight. I never thought it was going to be an easy fight. I was expecting a war and that is exactly what happened.’ – Marcos Maidana
‘I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.’ – Alexander Haig
‘I’ve been stuck on John Eldredge lately. He’s all about being a warrior outside of the church. I hate to think about this kind of stuff – I just like to do it.’ – John Tesh
‘Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.’ – Oriana Fallaci
‘Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.’ – Yannick Noah
‘Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He’s a warrior first and a poet second.’ – Ken Kesey
‘You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.’ – Paul Tsongas
‘I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.’ – Arthur Hays Sulzberger
‘But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we’re a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.’ – Tim Kaine
‘She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she’s also a bit of a fatale. She’s the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.’ – Helena Bonham Carter
‘I’m not a big guy anyway. I’m only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for ‘Batman,’ 179 for ‘Warrior.’ Films make you look big.’ – Tom Hardy
‘There was a time when I thought I was doing a good thing with good guys for a good cause. Looking back, I think I really wanted to be a warrior.’ – Steven Seagal
‘I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn’t even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.’ – Steve Sabol
‘Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there’s this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The bikes are loud, they have tattoos, they have artwork that they all wear on their jackets.’ – Ryan Hurst
‘Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.’ – David Rudisha
‘I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.’ – Julie Delpy
‘Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see.’ – Hulk Hogan
‘I would have to say that working on ‘Warrior’ felt more like working on a play than any other film I’ve ever done.’ – Jennifer Morrison
‘Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena – Warrior Princess. If you don’t do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men.’ – Harry Lloyd
‘This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house – I don’t know why.’ – Marc Forgione
‘I’m always represented as a bit of a class warrior – a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I’m actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.’ – Denise Mina
”I Am Number Four’ is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.’ – Alex Pettyfer
‘I have found things that I could have done better in ‘The Woman Warrior.’ But then I thought: Let the work of one’s youth just stand.’ – Maxine Hong Kingston
‘Wale means to arrive home. So the crown has arrived home. Akin is warrior or brave man. Nuoye is a brave man of chieftaincy and Agbaje means wealth and prosperity.’ – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
‘I wouldn’t know how to write a weak female character. I read so much epic fantasy growing up, where you have these sword-wielding, in-your-face warrior maidens.’ – Richelle Mead
‘I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.’ – Lynn Nottage
‘I’ve lived in many things – boats, caravans, and buses. I’ve been homeless, I’ve had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.’ – Neon Hitch
‘I collect firearms, and I’ve got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it’s got feathers and beads hanging off it. It’s like a work of art.’ – Joe Perry
‘I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.’ – Tom Brady
‘I’m a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He’s this silent warrior.’ – Erin Wasson
‘My look is ‘Poly’n’Asian’ – part Polynesian native, part Asian warrior.’ – Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
‘I’m a warrior at heart; I’m an ex-Navy Seal. I’m too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it’s war without guns.’ – Jesse Ventura
‘Americans have a warrior’s mentality, most of them. That’s how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.’ – Isabel Allende
‘My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn’t mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it’s good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.’ – Joni Mitchell
‘I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.’ – Monica Crowley
‘President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.’ – Monica Crowley
‘Somehow, when the authoritarians on the Right search for icons of manly warrior power to venerate, they find only those who like to melodramatically play-act as such, but who ran away when it came time to actually perform.’ – Glenn Greenwald
‘I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of ‘Another Kind of Warrior.’ I’d write it beginning to end, but when I’d finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I’d start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.’ – Neil Cross
‘I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.’ – Anne Fortier
‘I always intended the title, ‘WARRIOR,’ to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.’ – Gavin O’Connor
‘I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I’ve always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it’s possible to support the warrior and be against the war.’ – Kris Kristofferson
‘I’m a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I’m right there to protect them. I’m a big, strong guy who knows what he’s doing. I’ve stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.’ – Paul Sorvino
‘I’m playing an Amazon warrior princess in a new radio comedy series called ‘Elvenquest,’ and I’m playing a Russian genius in the comeback of ‘Red Dwarf.” – Sophie Winkleman
‘Honestly, when I was a little girl, I would watch wrestling with my brother, like, all the time. The Ultimate Warrior was my favorite. I used the have the biggest crush on him!’ – Dana Davis
‘Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we’ve had since the Great Depression.’ – Charles Duhigg
‘My wife likes the hockey smell because it’s the smell of a warrior.’ – David Walton
‘Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that’s embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation – and you find that character across cultures.’ – Bruce Feirstein
‘I am the ‘Cosmic Dancer’ who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on ‘Electric Warrior.’ I’m not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn’t look cool. That’s the way I would do it at home.’ – Marc Bolan
‘Sophocles was a general: a warrior writing plays about military situations.’ – Adam Driver
‘I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn’t be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.’ – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
‘The little bit of buzz around ‘Warrior’ led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.’ – Joel Edgerton
‘To me, ‘Warrior’ was a real turning point – probably one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had as an actor on set.’ – Joel Edgerton
‘You know what the doctors call me? ‘The Cancer Warrior.” – Dick Dale
‘One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan’s own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.’ – Jeff Grubb
‘My dad and I used to watch ‘Ninja Warrior’ all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, ‘I could do that,’ kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.’ – Kacy Catanzaro
‘I’d always intended to make ‘Far North’ straight after ‘The Warrior.’ We had the rights to the short story, the script was in development, and I knew where I wanted to shoot it. It just took a long time getting the script together and raising the finance.’ – Asif Kapadia
‘I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people’s government its essential vitality.’ – Ralph Bellamy
‘Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.’ – Jonathan Maberry
‘Anne Boleyn was a warrior forced to use the only tools available to a woman in her position at that time. She was bold and ambitious, and had she had a son, history would have been very different.’ – Lydia Leonard
‘I wish I’d made ‘Warrior,’ and I wish I’d made ‘Drive.” – Joe Carnahan
‘By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.’ – Kathryn Harrison
‘My father was indeed a musician, but he was a weekend warrior. He was a welder, actually, and worked all his life at the Ironworks in Beloit Wisconsin, and he played in a swing band on weekends.’ – Robin Zander
‘I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western – the drifter who comes into town with secrets – I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.’ – Simon Toyne
‘I think Vikings have always been popular, haven’t they? I remember being a kid and being in second grade reading a book about this Viking warrior.’ – Cullen Bunn
‘We train and work so hard in our sport, we would be nothing less than a warrior. Day in, day out, this is our life. It’s everything. The Olympic dream.’ – Kelita Zupancic
‘Although it was hard to be traded, I have no hard feelings. I’m grateful to Dan Gilbert and the Cavs organization for 12 amazing years. I know I’m very fortunate. I’m leaving one great team and joining another. I can’t wait to put on my new Warrior jersey.’ – Anderson Varejao
”Blowback,’ as many ‘Nation’ readers are aware, was a term introduced into popular circulation by the late political scientist Chalmers Johnson, an old Cold Warrior turned dissident.’ – Greg Grandin
‘Sen. Udall can only talk about one thing: He’s a social issues warrior.’ – Cory Gardner
‘Senator Udall focused his entire campaign as a social-issues warrior, and that was rejected by the people of Colorado, who embraced our plan of creating jobs and opportunity, growing energy independence, looking at education opportunities for the future, and making sure we’re focused on protecting this great Colorado environment.’ – Cory Gardner
‘One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original ‘Road Warrior.’ And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Die Hard’ and, of course, all of the ‘Star Wars’ movies.’ – Aisha Tyler
‘Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.’ – Tom Reiss
‘The name ‘Amazon’ was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for ‘warrior.” – Adrienne Mayor
‘We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers’ tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.’ – Adrienne Mayor
‘The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who were the archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen.’ – Adrienne Mayor
‘There’s a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, ‘warrior’ is a better word.’ – Ben Foster
‘Obama really is a warrior in chief. He’s not afraid to get the job done.’ – Peter Berg
‘There was an incident in Argentina when I was making a film called ‘The Warrior and the Sorceress.’ There were, like, 40, 50 sword fighters and martial artists on the set, and one of the sword fighters challenged me. I said, ‘Look, you don’t want to fight me. Nobody wants to fight me. You gotta be crazy to want to fight me.” – David Carradine
‘When somebody says, ‘Oh, Buffy, you’re such a warrior for peace’, I stop them and say, ‘No, I’m not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution’.’ – Buffy Sainte-Marie
‘I had moments with my father that were exquisite – the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me.’ – Frank McCourt
‘My radio company has begun calling me ‘the happy conservative warrior.” – Mike Gallagher
‘Nicknamed ‘Mad-Dog Mattis’ by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn’t an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining.’ – Ryan Zinke
‘Gen. Mattis is a warrior. What I appreciate about Gen. Mattis is he understands the principle that if you go to war, you go to war to win.’ – Ryan Zinke
‘Technology certainly is going faster. Dynamics on the battlefield are faster. And so, I think you do need, you know, a warrior that is adept in technology, you know, certainly skilled.’ – Ryan Zinke
‘Too many of Montana’s own have fallen in the line of duty fighting radical Islamic terrorists, like 31-year-old husband and father of four, Blackfeet warrior Army Corporal Tony ‘Many Hides’ of Great Falls.’ – Ryan Zinke
‘I’m a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I’m back home.’ – Jack Kingston
‘I remember ‘Wrestlemania 6′ with The Ultimate Warrior against Hulk Hogan. It was so cool to see those guys go in there and the fans getting into the match so much.’ – Jeff Hardy
‘Since I played a warrior in ‘Magadheera,’ my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.’ – Ram Charan
‘Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that’s absolutely no pressure.’ – Luke Roberts
‘Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that’s absolutely no pressure. It didn’t help, during the casting, the director kept saying, ‘Remember, you’re the most legendary swordsman ever.’ I said, ‘Great. I’ll try and convey that in my four lines of dialogue.” – Luke Roberts
‘Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He’s a warrior. He’s a hell of a warrior.’ – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
‘I grew up in the church, and my mom is, like a major prayer warrior.’ – Rotimi
‘I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer… It’s innate.’ – Judy Sheindlin
‘When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.’ – Daniel Bryan
‘If I look like a six-pack replete warrior in ‘Tanu Weds Manu,’ viewers are not going accept me.’ – R. Madhavan
‘Arjun was a perfectionist. He was the perfect son, the perfect husband, the perfect father and, above else, a great warrior.’ – Shaheer Sheikh
‘Padmasree Warrior has been on all the lists. The most powerful women in tech. The most powerful women in the world.’ – Emily Chang
‘I’m a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.’ – Abbie Hoffman
‘I’ve always wanted to play a samurai warrior.’ – Karen Fukuhara
‘Originally, I was set on going to Hawaii Pacific University. We visited the campus in Hawaii. I was gonna be a Rainbow Warrior. I was gonna play softball. I was gonna major in marine biology. Everything was set. Then my dad was like, ‘So you’re not gonna do music? If you do go to Hawaii, there’s no studios there, baby girl.” – Dawn Richard
‘I’ve always fancied being a bit of warrior, on a horse swinging a sword around, sorting out the men… Oh yes, that sounds lovely.’ – Maxine Peake
‘When I was a kid, I wanted to be a pro wrestler. Other kids wanted to be cops and astronauts, but I wanted to be Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage, Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake, and Jake ‘The Snake.’ I wanted to be those guys! I used to tape matches on my trampoline and body-slam my brother.’ – Josh Segarra
‘I hated writing ‘Love Warrior.’ It’s the hardest thing I’ve every written. I cried.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton
‘I was always into fantasy characters, stories of magic, but after Red Sonja, I became obsessed with the persona, the image, of the warrior woman – the sword-wielding, defiant, fearless woman.’ – Marjorie Liu
‘There are a lot of people who will tell you I’m very ruthless. I’m very fierce. If I feel I’m right, if I feel I’ve been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!’ – George C. Wolfe
‘Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman’s powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s, she was hardly wondrous at all, less a heroic warrior than the tomboyish girl next door. It was no longer clear whether she was meant to empower the girls or captivate the boys.’ – Amanda Foreman
‘Unlike Wimpy Tim Kaine, Virginians have a warrior spirit and a rebel heart.’ – Corey Stewart
‘When I was in my teen years and in my 20s and even 60s, it was okay to drop everything and disappear and become a road warrior for all those months. But after a while you get… y’know, one likes to have some home life.’ – Paul Rodgers
‘I was six years old watching wrestling on TV. I was eight years old watching Ultimate Warrior run to the ring at WrestleMania. I was eighteen years old starting out on a journey in the U.K. wanting to be a professional wrestler.’ – Finn Balor
‘My Ultimate Warrior fans mean the world to me.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘I remember Wrestlemania VI, being in my locker room painting my face, about halfway done, and the production guys came, and they knocked on the door, and they came in. I was looking in the mirror at them, and they said, ‘Hey, Warrior, we’ve got a cart to take you to the ring.’ I just looked at them, and I said, ‘I’m running to the ring.” – The Ultimate Warrior
‘The Ultimate Warrior character relative to professional wrestling or WWE, he’s definitely a Hall of Famer. He’s a Hall of Famer whether he gets into the Hall of Fame or not.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘When I developed the Ultimate Warrior character and kept evolving the character, I knew, there was no question that it would work because it was working.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘I have an intense personality, and a lot of the qualities that the Ultimate Warrior had still apply to my everyday life.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘I was one of the first guys to talk about their characters in the third-person, and I think the character of the Ultimate Warrior certainly is a legend.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘Ultimate Warrior was a character who made an impression on people. It was his intensity, his colorfulness, but also, Warrior as an identity means something to everyone. Even through all of the grumbling and haphazard approach at the beginning to developing the character’s persona, there was something that people connected to.’ – The Ultimate Warrior
‘Cain Velasquez – he is a good puncher. He is very compact. He’s strong. He’s very smart. He’s a good fighter. He’s a warrior.’ – Gennady Golovkin
‘For ‘Baahubali,’ I gained eight or nine kilos for the warrior look. But for ‘Saaho,’ I didn’t need look like that.’ – Prabhas
‘As a kid, growing up, my heroes all had the Intercontinental Championship. Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Mr. Perfect, Ric Rude, all of them. And they were the people I looked up to and wanted to be like.’ – The Miz
‘Being a comedian, it’s hard. People hear ‘YouTuber,’ and they automatically think, ‘a social warrior,’ and you have to stand up for all these things.’ – Shane Dawson
‘All I know is that I’m a warrior in ‘Game of Thrones,’ where all men must die, so it might happen at one point. But I feel like they’re going to take the story where they think they need to go, so I’ll wait, and I’ll gladly do whatever they write.’ – Michiel Huisman
‘The thing is, I’m never scared. It’s just in the blood, really. My family come from a warrior clan background, the Rajput tribe from the Punjab, and that could be one of the reasons. Going into fights just seems normal to me.’ – Amir Khan
‘Being at Wrestlemania 6, I remember being completely in shock and dumbfounded when Hulk Hogan missed the leg drop and Warrior hit the splash and got the 1-2-3. I was devastated.’ – Edge
‘Triple H is a former bodybuilder. He’s all about bodies. He thought that Hulk Hogan was the greatest wrestler in the world. They think Ultimate Warrior was the greatest wrestler in the world because that’s what they’re attracted to, but he’s not really a wrestling fan like I grew up. I was a wrestling fan.’ – Bret Hart
‘Hogan had the same match every night for years, and so did Warrior. They didn’t tell great stories, to be honest.’ – Bret Hart
‘I’m a warrior at heart. A lot of other people do it for money, or they want stardom and fame because they want to be famous or they just want to be on TV, and they just happen to have the skills to be a good fighter.’ – Ken Shamrock
‘How you find out who somebody is, whether or not they are a true warrior, a true competitor all the way through… is people that don’t know how to walk away or say, ‘I’m retired.’ Those are the ones that are purebred warriors. They don’t know anything else.’ – Ken Shamrock
‘I always thought that a film about how my father’s life was shaped in his early years in Hong Kong would be a worthwhile story to share so we could better understand him as a human being and a warrior.’ – Shannon Lee
‘Being appreciated for playing a female warrior seems too good to be true. I enjoy playing such empowered roles, and on a related note, that’s why I agreed to become the brand ambassador for the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign.’ – Tamannaah
‘It was playing on the varzea where I learned to be a warrior, to fight for every ball, and then to never give it away.’ – Gabriel Jesus
‘Kell Brook has a lot of heart. He showed it against Golovkin and when he came over here to the States and fought Shawn Porter. He’s a real warrior in the ring.’ – Errol Spence Jr.
‘Those kinds of fights when a warrior meets a warrior is something that should definitely take place in boxing.’ – Oleksandr Usyk
‘I am an athlete, a warrior.’ – Oleksandr Usyk
‘You never ask a Maasai warrior how many cattle he has; it’s like asking someone how much money they’ve got in their bank account.’ – Brooke Baldwin
‘People still knew me as Charles, so when I came across Charlemagne in a history book, that sounded good: Charles the Great, a warrior who used his power to spread religion and education. He was the head of the Carolingian dynasty, and with me being from South Carolina, that clicked.’ – Charlamagne tha God
‘Knowing what God has in store for me – it gives me hope. I kind of feel like God’s warrior, pretty much. God’s weapon.’ – Sage Northcutt
‘If you go back to the ’80s, I didn’t really know much about the characters. I knew what they did in the ring. I knew Hogan went off and spouted lots of crazy promos, and Ultimate Warrior did the same. They really were just characters.’ – Sheamus
‘With the Celtic Warrior thing, I wanted to convey a positive sense of Ireland.’ – Sheamus
‘When I look back at my career, I was always trying to be this particular ‘Celtic Warrior’ character.’ – Sheamus
‘It’s really fun doing the ‘Celtic Warrior Workouts,’ as it just gives the fans a chance to see how we train.’ – Sheamus
”The Princess and the Warrior’ is looking at the same things as ‘Lola’ – just from a different angle.’ – Franka Potente
‘In the ’90s, there was a big wrestling boom in Switzerland with Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, and all those guys. It was on television in Switzerland on a German TV station for a year or so. That’s when I saw wrestling for the first time. I was in the fifth or sixth grade and was a fan of it right away.’ – Cesaro
‘A sniper’s primary goal is to eliminate ground threats for U.S. guys on the ground. Is that what a coward is? A person whose goal is to save the lives of his warrior brothers?’ – Dakota Meyer
‘I’m a warrior.’ – Henry Cejudo
‘I chose Warrior because my approach to the game and desire to win is the same as theirs. It’s a brand that does things differently to the others, and I really like that.’ – Marouane Fellaini
‘We are a great fit, and I’m excited about the chance to influence a new generation of young footballers alongside Warrior.’ – Marouane Fellaini
‘When I was growing up, I was a big Ultimate Warrior fan; I liked Macho Man Randy Savage and a lot of other bad dudes.’ – Jordan Burroughs
‘The only interaction I had with my brothers is like negative attention where I’d basically egg them on into beating me up – which was delightful! Otherwise, it was me with a video camera jumping on a bed pretending to be the Ultimate Warrior or setting up my robots making a Transformers movie because I was a lonely kid.’ – Adam F. Goldberg
‘I love ‘Mad Max’ and ‘The Road Warrior,’ in particular – those movies are very close to my soul, you know what I mean?!’ – Jim Root
‘You know, ‘Mad Max’ and ‘The Road Warrior’ was part of my childhood, and that’s why I’m so close to it. I remember seeing those movies at a drive-in theater with my parents when I was very young.’ – Jim Root
‘You can’t create Nick Diaz. That guy has some serious warrior spirit or something.’ – Eddie Bravo
‘I actually fell down the steps on ‘Ninja Warrior.’ – Chris Kamara’ – Chris Kamara
‘I got injured just before we filmed ‘Ninja Warrior,’ which stopped me playing football with my mates. I haven’t played football since. I’m crocked now, my back has gone and I feel like my body has packed in.’ – Chris Kamara
‘I’m a warrior.’ – Joanna Jedrzejczyk
‘As ‘Warrior’ comes together, I can’t help but feel the pride of correcting a wrong and helping bring Bruce Lee’s dream project to life.’ – Justin Lin
‘I’ve been fortunate to be able to try everything. But I have to say ‘Warrior’ has been my pride and joy.’ – Justin Lin
‘Just as we need a productive warrior force to carry out our national defense mission, our national workforce must be equally able to carry out our economic mission.’ – Joe Sestak
‘So I think we need to set up an ‘American Ninja Warrior’ obstacle course at the border and whoever can make it – you can’t fake it – they get through.’ – Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
‘There is something empowering about being a female warrior to me.’ – Lights
‘So I’m working on another historical novel. This one’s a Franco-New Zealand novel, and it takes place at the time of the Rainbow Warrior bombing in New Zealand.’ – Christine Leunens
‘Ultimate Warrior? No! No! The Ultimate never a good person in the business. He never respect the people.’ – The Iron Sheik
‘I had always in the past thought The Ultimate Warrior was the epitome of a guy making money with no talent.’ – Jim Cornette
‘For all the different videos that we got to dress up in, I love fantasy stuff, so for ‘Radioactive,’ I felt like I was a warrior, and for ‘Daft Punk,’ I felt like I was a space warrior.’ – Avi Kaplan
‘Klopp really likes the way I pay and fight for every ball. He sees me as a true warrior.’ – Ciro Immobile
‘I think of myself as a bit of a mother bear, and if anybody poses a threat to my kids they’ll see both my mother’s heart and my warrior spirit. I think that they’re compatible.’ – MJ Hegar
‘I was the biggest Ultimate Warrior fan.’ – Hornswoggle
‘There was no better entrance in history than The Ultimate Warrior. It was the greatest entrance between the music that had that guitar riff, and that face paint, and the tassels, and the gear. It was the greatest!’ – Hornswoggle
‘Kiwis, we love a good one out. We love a good fight. This is part of the culture. Straight up. We’re a country of a warrior race, the Maori.’ – Israel Adesanya
‘I was built to be a fighter, to be a warrior just like Ronda Rousey was built to be a warrior and Bruce Jenner is getting back to being the hardcore person, the warrior that he is.’ – Fallon Fox
‘Do you ever wonder what the Amazons would have looked like in real life? I think in MMA, like, you see it – that warrior spirit. You see that determination. You see that heart. You see that bravery.’ – Fallon Fox
‘I recycle as much as I can but I’m not an eco warrior.’ – Laila Rouass
‘If there was a regret, the one thing I didn’t get to do before he died, was bury the hatchet with Ultimate Warrior.’ – Ted DiBiase Sr.
‘I didn’t understand Warrior. When you come into my business, but you join the family, and that’s something that Jim never did. It didn’t seem to me that he was grateful for the things that people did for him.’ – Ted DiBiase Sr.
‘No sport is more geared to the warrior’s code of honour, pride and respect. That’s why I love boxing. It’s mano a mano. One against one. It’s driven by fear and your need to conquer it.’ – Carl Froch
‘I’m a very proud warrior and with that mentality comes great fights: especially when I’m in with opponents that mean business.’ – Carl Froch
‘Some guys, when they enjoy some success in this sport, they get complacent. Not me. It makes me work and train that much harder, helps to bring out the warrior in me.’ – Michael Chandler
‘I love Lucas Torreira. When you play in his position you need to be a warrior, and he’s a warrior. He likes to fight a good fight with the other players and technically he’s very good.’ – Robert Pires
‘I always wanted to fight Cormier. He has this fighting style, he’s a warrior, I always wanted to fight someone like him, a guy like ‘Rampage,’ someone who moves forward and fights.’ – Glover Teixeira
‘I like Kobe, I like the way he approaches the game. He’s a warrior.’ – LeSean McCoy
‘I found ‘Veer Shivajian’ interesting project as it showcases the life of the great Maratha warrior and takes you back in history.’ – Raza Murad
‘Robert Guerrero was a tremendous warrior.’ – Keith Thurman
‘They should bring up my record, and call it the fighter bible. The warrior bible. All those guys with padded records should read it everyday, and they should put my picture on their wall as the Jesus Christ of MMA.’ – Artem Lobov
‘We see many sides of her, beyond the ‘Ballad of Mulan.’ We see her as a human being, as a girl, as a young woman. Everybody admires her as a warrior but is there a fragile side to her? Will she sometimes hesitate or be afraid, but still choose to carry on? Yes, and we see that.’ – Liu Yifei
‘From my perspective, I would say as an actress, I’m like a warrior too.’ – Liu Yifei
‘We are backing good content-driven films. The company has movies like ‘Bharat,’ ‘Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior,’ ‘De De Pyaar De,’ and ‘Bhuj: The Pride Of India.” – Bhushan Kumar
‘I have a complete temple of Lord Shiva. I have Shivansh written on me and that is the name of my sister’s son. I am a Leo so I also have a lion. I also have a warrior type tattoo as that gives me the spirit to fight when I am on the field. The pain of getting inked gives me joy.’ – Yuzvendra Chahal
‘I was never going to become Road Warrior Animal.’ – Christopher Daniels
‘Up until 1400BC, citadel settlements are stable. Goddesses – notably in charge of fertility and learning – have a crucial role to play. But as civilisation gets greedy and society more militaristic, these wise women are edged to the sidelines in favour of a thundering, male warrior god.’ – Bettany Hughes
‘I’ve done it the hard way – first Olympic gold medallist from Great Britain to win a world title, the ‘road warrior.’ I love that tag because I do travel.’ – James DeGale
‘No matter how far I get into my career, even if I get hurt again, it’s just a part of who I am. On the flip, I’m a warrior, I’m a soldier, I get up. As many times as I fell, I’ve still gotten up, and that’s way more rewarding to me than any other thing that I’ve ever accomplished, and I’m proud of that.’ – Jabari Parker
‘I am not a warrior.’ – Gianluca Vialli
‘I was thankful for the fight with Kampmann. I was thankful for the cuts, I was thankful because I found something inside of my heart that I knew was there, but I had never tapped into it. I found this warrior’s spirit, an old school warrior within me.’ – Diego Sanchez
‘I look up to fighters like Vitor Belfort, Anderson Silva, Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture. A lot of the fighters that fought into their older age and for me, as a warrior, I just love it.’ – Diego Sanchez
‘I’m a warrior.’ – Diego Sanchez
‘I didn’t want to be just a weekend warrior and go up and fly every now and then.’ – Jared Isaacman
‘Art or no Art, 2015 was already going to be the busiest year of my life. I’m not sure how I’ll make it all work yet but I’m feeling like a warrior and I’m prepared to work hard.’ – Dawn O’Porter
‘My dad instilled in me a warrior like spirit that I’ve applied towards life.’ – Bruce Buffer
‘Twenty years is what it takes to become a marriage warrior.’ – Jim Breuer
‘I’m not a social justice warrior – that was never my goal, to be a political figurehead.’ – Violet Chachki
‘I wouldn’t like to say I’m a class warrior.’ – Jesse Armstrong
‘Sam Stout is a warrior.’ – Jeremy Stephens
‘I’m a love warrior.’ – Skip Marley
‘I’m a real warrior.’ – Matt Mitrione