Popularity is not leadership.

I don't follow the thought; "Winning is not important, playing the game is". If that is in fact true; then why do we keep score??

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing.

Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.