"Train like you're going to fight!" Lieutenant Commander Shumaker, USN (Ret)
"The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave..."
--Patrick Henry--
"We have met the enemy and they are ours!"
--Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1813--
"Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
--Winston Churchill--
"If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it."
--Anonymous (1940's saying)--
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
--General Douglas MacArthur--
"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much."
--Oscar Wilde--
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
--George Orwell--
"Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking."
--Ferdinand Foch-- at the Battle of the Marne
"There are two types of people, those who run and those who should." ~Unknown
"Mother's, there's a mad man running in the streets,
And he's humming a tune,
And he's snarling at dogs,
And he still has four more miles to go. "
-May 1990
""You don't have to have the lead if you have the courage to come from behind."
- source unknown
"All men dream; But not equally."
- Lawrence of Arabia
"Pain is temporary, pride is forever!"
- source unknown
"Pain is only weakness leaving the body."
- source unknown
"The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win."
- Bobby Knight
"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."
- Zig Ziglar
"You must listen to your body. Run through annoyance but not through pain."
- George Sheehan
"Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible."
- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what its all about."
- PattiSue Plumer, U.S. Olympian
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way!" SGT H
"I've been through worse." CPT Mate
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