Words matter. These are the best Combative Quotes from famous people such as John Irving, Ian Jackson, Randy Couture, Dana Perino, Bill Cowher, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative – and being angry. And when you’re small and you don’t back down, you get in a lot of fights.
I’m sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that’s my general style.
I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There’s something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
As a press secretary and on ‘The Five,’ I’ve learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There’s combative or productive – I get to take my pick.
I miss the combative back and forth, strategic elements of the game on Sunday. Making the adjustments, and what you’ve prepared for all week all of a sudden isn’t there.
Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.
I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
Many say that no real avant-garde – which I’ll define as a combative group of free-thinking artists – can exist anymore. The media’s reach is too vast. New artists and movements get snatched up too quickly.
The captaincy of the national side is a distinction which Messi deserves as he has all the qualities a captain requires – a combative character and immeasurable talent.
To say martial arts, or the combative form – mixed martial arts – is not an art form is incorrect.
With three younger brothers, we were always very competitive and combative. But my mother always says I get the drive from her.
Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.
I’m a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man’s world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.
