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I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!

Bill Mauldin

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

Building Team Team Building
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
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
BILL MAULDIN

Born might Trouble Maker
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
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
BILL MAULDIN

Coaching Player Teamwork
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
Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
BILL MAULDIN

Cynical Shooting Want
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
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’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
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
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
BILL MAULDIN

Funny Motivation Science
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’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

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