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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

Bill Mauldin

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

Building Team Team Building
Big Dreams Ccreate the Magic that Stir Men’s Souls to Greatness…
BILL MAULDIN

Dream Greatness Men
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
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
BILL MAULDIN

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

Leadership Spaghetti Wet
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
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
BILL MAULDIN

Civilization Made Status
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
Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
BILL MAULDIN

Cynical Shooting Want
But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom.
BILL MAULDIN

Beautiful Good Life Ocean
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

I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

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