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We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.

Bill Mauldin

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

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

Play Player Property Reason
When we realize finally that we aren’t God’s given children, we’ll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
BILL MAULDIN

Children Hurt Laughing
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
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
We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
BILL MAULDIN

Building Team Team Building
When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
BILL MAULDIN

Ability Born Again DNA
I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
BILL MAULDIN

Catholic Heart Mother
True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
BILL MAULDIN

Depth Emotional Soul
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
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
What you are about to hear is God’s word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power – that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.
BILL MAULDIN

School War Winning
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
BILL MAULDIN

Coaching Player Teamwork
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

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