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SPORTS - RELATED QUOTES
Quotes from a firearms forum that show kinship of sports to warfare
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Out of every 100 men, ten shouldn’t even be there, Eighty are just targets, Nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, One is a warrior, And he will bring the others back.
— Heraclitus
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"on the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bodies of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to rest, and resting died."
- Adlai E. Stevenson
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In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Be the hammer not the nail.
- Anon.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Anon.
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
(In other words, "What now, LT?")
- George S. Patton
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The essence of life is struggle, and its goal is domination. There are higher goals and deeper meanings, but they exist only within the mind of man. The reality of life is war.
- Lovret
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After the train had been captured by 150 Boers, the last four men, though completely surrounded and with no cover, continued to fire until three were killed, the fourth wounded. On the Boers asking the survivor the reason why they had not surrendered, he replied, 'Why, man, we are the Gordon Highlanders.'
- Lord Kitchener, telegram from Pretoria to Edward VII (10 August 1901)
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Train hard, for the day will come.
- Anon.
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Don’t anticipate outcome. Await the unfolding of events. Remain in the moment.
- Anon.
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There is a time for peace and talk and reason; and then, at long last, and only with sadness of heart and mournful admission that all your wisdom and words have failed, you must go kill you some mother****ers and set some of their shat on fire.
- Anon.
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“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly . . . who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
- H. L. Mencken
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"We have four boxes used to guarantee our liberty; the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box."
- Theodore Roosevelt
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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - a cocktail in one hand - a smoke in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming - WOO HOO!? What a ride!"
- Paul Smith
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Were it not for the Brave, there would be no Land of the Free.
- Anon.
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"I've never lived closer to danger, but I've never felt safer. I've never felt more confident, and people could spot it from a mile away. And as for this, the violence? I gotta be honest - it grew on me. Once you've taken a few punches and realize you're not made of glass, you don't feel alive unless you're pushing yourself as far as you can go."
- Green Street Hooligans
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"The only difference between genius and insanity is success"
- Anon.
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May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton
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"Sometimes it is not enough to do our best––we must do what is required."
- Sir Winston Churchill
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"The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and war's desolation."
- Anon.
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"Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country’s cause."
- Anon.
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"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth."
- Thomas J. Jackson
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Infantry-We are the military's version of the Boy Scouts... But with automatic weapons and no adult supervision.
- Anon.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stewart Mill
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BOTTOM LINE FOR THIS POST
The motivation in sports and combat has to be finishing second is not an option!
- Sports_Nut
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