Well, 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.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFI do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
More Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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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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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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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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