Quotes to Think About:
Wisdom
from Various Military Training manuals
'If
the enemy is in range, so are you.'
- Infantry
Journal-
'It is
generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.'
- US.
Air Force Manual
'Whoever
said the pen is mightier than the sword, obviously never encountered
automatic weapons.'
- General MacArthur
'You, you,
and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me.'
- Infantry Sgt.-
'Tracers
work both ways.'
- Army
Ordnance Manual-
'Five second
fuses last about three seconds.'
- Infantry
Journal
'Any ship
can be a minesweeper. Once.'
- Naval Ops Manual -
'Never tell
the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do.'
- Unknown
Infantry Recruit-
'If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him.'
- Infantry Journal-
'Yea, Though
I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil. For
I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.'
- Sign over SR71 Wing Ops-
'You've
never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.'
-Paul F. Crickmore (SR71 test pilot)-
'The only
time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.'
-Unknown Author-
'When one
engine fails on a twin-engine airplane, you
always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.'
-Multi-Engine Training Manual-
'Without
ammunition, the Air Force is
just an expensive flying club.'
-Unknown Author-
'What is the
similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
If a
pilot screws up, the pilot dies; but If
ATC screws up, .... the pilot dies.'
-Sign over Control Tower Door-
'Never trade
luck for skill.'
-Author Unknown-
The three
most common expressions (or famous last words) in
military aviation are: Did you feel that?' 'What's
that noise?' and
'Oh S...!'
-Author Unknown-
'Airspeed,
altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the
flight.'
-Basic Flight Training Manual-
'Flying the
airplane is more important than radioing your plight to
a person on the ground incapable of understanding or
doing anything about it.'
- Emergency
Checklist-
'The Piper
Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it
can just barely kill you.'
- Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot) -
'There is no
reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.'
-Sign over Squadron Ops Desk at Davis-Montham AFB, AZ-
Other Favorite Quotes of Ours
A fanatic is
one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
A man does what he must - in spite of
personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures -
and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
A politician needs the ability to foretell
what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.
And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to
kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple, and many
can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy,
hope.
Winston Churchill
Although personally I am quite content with
existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of
improvement.
Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I
preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,
hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big
difference.
Winston Churchill
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less
he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the
best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or
intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of
human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all
others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and
speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is
necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It
calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
A school
without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study
hall.
Vince Lombardi
Coaches who can outline plays on a black
board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and
motivate.
Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of
confidence.
Vince Lombardi
Dictionary is the only place that success
comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I
think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi
Football is like life - it requires
perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect
for authority.
Vince Lombardi
I don't think there's a punch-line
scheduled, is there?
Vince Lombardi
I firmly believe that any man's finest
hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment
when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on
the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses,
then why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they
keep score?
Vince Lombardi
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you
will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
Individual commitment to a group effort -
that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a
civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
It's easy to have faith in yourself and
have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you
got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's
whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Leaders are made, they are not born. They
are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to
achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they
are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the
price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
Once you agree upon the price you and your
family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts,
the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win, whether
it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern
society.
Vince Lombardi
Believe
deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart,
and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno
Its the name on the front of the jersey
that matters most, not the one on the back.
Joe Paterno
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your
sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt
unless you swallow it.
Joe Paterno
Success without honor is an unseasoned
dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
The minute you think you've got it made,
disaster is just around the corner.
Joe Paterno
The name on the front of the jersey is what
really matters, not the name on the back.
Joe Paterno
The will to win is important, but the will
to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
When a team outgrows individual performance
and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno
You have to perform at a consistently
higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
You need to play with supreme confidence,
or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
Joe Paterno
I don't measure a man's success by how high
he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
Better to fight for something than live for
nothing.
George S. Patton
A lifetime contract for a coach means if
you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire
you.
Lou Holtz
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating
mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you
want to be treated.
Lou Holtz
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass
you by.
Lou Holtz
How you respond to the challenge in the
second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you
are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz
I can't believe that God put us on this
earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz
I never learn anything talking. I only
learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz
I think everyone should experience defeat
at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz
If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a
camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.
Lou Holtz
If what you did yesterday seems big, you
haven't done anything today.
Lou Holtz
If you burn your neighbors house down, it
doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz
If you try to fight the course, it will
beat you.
Lou Holtz
If you're bored with life - you don't get
up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have
enough goals.
Lou Holtz
In the successful organization, no detail
is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the
ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Lou Holtz
It's not the load that breaks you down,
it's the way you carry it.
Lou Holtz
Life is ten percent what happens to you and
ninety percent how you respond to it.
Lou Holtz
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those
who are not motivated.
Lou Holtz
No one has ever drowned in sweat.
Lou Holtz
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner
all the time.
George S. Patton
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in
the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do
attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never
quit.
Bear Bryant
I'll put you through hell, but at the end
of it all we'll be champions.
Bear Bryant
A coach is someone who can give correction
without causing resentment.
John Wooden
Courage is like love; it must have hope for
nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is a poor man's wealth.
John Wooden
Adversity is the state in which man mostly
easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of
admirers then.
John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than
your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while
your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
Be prepared and be honest.
John Wooden
Consider the rights of others before your
own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden
Do not let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do.
John Wooden
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with
what you can do.
John Wooden
Don't measure yourself by what you have
accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your
ability.
John Wooden
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change
might be.
John Wooden
If you don't have time to do it right, when
will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden
If you're not making mistakes, then you're
not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden
It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
John Wooden
It's not so important who starts the game
but who finishes it.
John Wooden
It's the little details that are vital.
Little things make big things happen.
John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all
that counts.
John Wooden
Material possessions, winning scores, and
great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He
knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
John Wooden
Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden
Success comes from knowing that you did
your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
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