I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFWell, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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I get angry at a principle, not a person.
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From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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