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You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn’t execute properly.

Bill Mauldin

If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton.
BILL MAULDIN

Attitude Dark Soldier
My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: “The hell this ain’t the most important hole in the world . I’m in it.
BILL MAULDIN

Italian Reading Years
I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make something out of the humorous situations which come up even when you don’t think life could be any more miserable.
BILL MAULDIN

Humorous Soldier Thinking
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
BILL MAULDIN

Born might Trouble Maker
I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
BILL MAULDIN

Packages Prize Want Wanted
When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
BILL MAULDIN

Ability Born Again DNA
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
BILL MAULDIN

Civilization Made Status
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
BILL MAULDIN

Coaching Player Teamwork
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
BILL MAULDIN

Funny Motivation Science
Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
BILL MAULDIN

Cynical Shooting Want
I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man’s conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
BILL MAULDIN

Army Conception Mean Men
Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
BILL MAULDIN

Living Peasants Respected Sure
If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
BILL MAULDIN

Honesty Integrity Men
A soldier’s life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I’ve been able to follow my kid’s progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.
BILL MAULDIN

Kids Progress Soldier
If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
BILL MAULDIN

Leadership Spaghetti Wet
Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is – to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That’s really what I’m called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.
BILL MAULDIN

Focus Jesus Purpose

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