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		When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
	
	  Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
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		We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
	
	  Edgar Ramirez Edgar Ramirez
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		For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
	
	  Yann Arthus-Bertrand Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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		I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
	
	  Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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		I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
	
	  Olivia Thirlby Olivia Thirlby
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		People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.
	
	  Mike Tyson Mike Tyson
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		Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
	
	  Fyodor Dostoevsky Fyodor Dostoevsky
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		You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.
	
	  Jay-Z Jay-Z
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		Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or fighting, but my dad would say, 'Come on, think about it.' He'd choose more involving films like 'Pulp Fiction,' and at the end of the night, we'd agree that they were great.
	
	  Christian Cooke Christian Cooke
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		Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
	
	  Nathaniel Philbrick Nathaniel Philbrick
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		Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
	
	  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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		I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
	
	  Ralph Abernathy Ralph Abernathy
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		I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
	
	  Van Jones Van Jones
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		'In the short time I've known you, Richard, I've noticed you possess a lamentable tendency to put on shining armor and look for ladies to rescue. King Arthur, God rest his soul, would have loved you. He'd have had you fighting every evil knight in the forest.'
	
	  Bernard Cornwell Bernard Cornwell
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		Moreover, from reforming the tax code to our immigration system, to commonsense legal reform, President Bush put America on notice that he will continue fighting to make the country, and the world, a better place for future generations.
	
	  Jim Sensenbrenner Jim Sensenbrenner
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		I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free...I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.
	
	  Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher