Here are (some of) my favorite quotes:
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
-Winston Churchill
More from him later on.
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go…”
-Dr. Seuss in Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
If I could, I would’ve put this entire book here, it’s wonderful.
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
-Isaac Asimov
“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.”
-Juma Ikaanga
Shoutout to Coach Desomma
“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”
-Vince Lombardi
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
-Winston Churchill
If he said this is debated, as is who it was said to (but it was a member of Parliament).
“I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.”
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky in Notes from Underground
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
-General George S. Patton
Patton twice slapped soldiers hospitalized without physical injuries for being soft.
“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
-William Ernest Henley in Invictus
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”
-General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“’Cause down the shore everything’s alright…”
-Bruuuuuuuce Springsteen in Jersey Girl
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.”
-General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If you don’t like how the table is set, turn over the table.”
-Frank Underwood in House of Cards (written by Beau Wilson)
“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
-Leroy “Satchel” Paige
“Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just…”
-Francis Scott Key in The Star Spangled Banner
“I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf.”
-Tug McGraw
Someone asked him if he prefers grass of Astroturf.
