What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

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

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

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.

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.