If he can't fight himself, he excels in making others ready to fight".
Lincoln offered this famous evaluation of McClellan: "If he can't fight himself, he excels in making others ready to fight".
He was seen as a potential candidate for the most valuable player award in 1999, but he started slowly and soon scouts chattered about how he seemed to fight himself at the plate, how he turned his intensity on himself and how it hurt him.
He began to feel emasculated when he played formula roles that depended on technique only, and he had to fight himself to retain his belief in the audience, which often preferred what he did when he sold out.
And, when Tendler turned down the dirt road that led to his gate, he fought to keep himself from running, and he fought to keep himself from crying, because, after what he had seen, he knew that to survive in this world he must always act like a man.
As he fought to insert himself into the conversation, Mr. Santorum, who won the Iowa caucuses, pointed out that he should be on equal footing with Mr. Romney, who won the New Hampshire primary, and Mr. Gingrich, who won South Carolina.
An apparently mercenary hack, employed secretly by governments of every political complexion, he fought to persuade himself of his own integrity.
This was the city where he fought to establish himself as the candidate of hope and change, first in a bruising encounter with Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination and then for the presidency.
He fought and distinguished himself alongside some of the biggest names in the warlord business, like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Abdul Rashid Dostum.
Though not a Roman Catholic himself, he fought in the Irish House of Commons for Roman Catholic emancipation.
