Quotes About Victory

Mahan's dictum that good men and bad ships make a better navy than bad men and good ships was always near Nimitz's thoughts.

These young pilots acted as if they were playing football," Admiral Halsey later said. "They'd fight like the devil, then take a short time-out, and get back into the fight again.

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Possessing foreknowledge of Japanese intentions, Nimitz had been dealt a very strong hand. It is also true that he played that hand skillfully, indeed flawlessly. In arranging his forces, Nimitz had concentrated on one overriding objective to the exclusion of all others: to ambush and destroy the Japanese carriers. Whereas Yamamoto's plan was vast and fatally complex, Nimitz's was straightforward, and aimed at the enemy's most vulnerable point.

Even so, the Americans had needed more than a few strokes of good luck. The battle had been a near-run thing, and easily might have gone the other way.

All that I can claim credit for, myself, is a very keen sense of the urgent need for surprise and a strong desire to hit the enemy carriers with our full strength as early as we could reach them.

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. I win.

He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style. 

How are you? Perfectly fine, he said. Are your ribs broken? Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully. Did this settle anything? It made me feel better, he said, sitting up. Did you see me kick him in the kidneys? I saw.

I almost had her. Curran nodded. I heard. And you could've taken her, too. My voice came out flat. Rub it in, why don't you. He grinned. No time for that now, maybe later. I closed my eyes. There wouldn't be any later. Are you imagining me rubbing it in? he asked.

Sometimes the Universe smiled. Mostly she kicked me in the face, stomped on my ribs once I fell down, and laughed at my pain, but once in a while she smiled.

Like a primitive savage, who sets out to tame the wilderness armed with nothing but a knife and his indomitable will, I will persevere. I will wrestle victory from the greedy jaws of defeat. I shall rise like a bird of prey upon the current of the wind, my talons raised for the kill, and I shall strike true." Oh wow. I hope the inn filmed that.

Let's play who can be a better killer. My sword and I love this game.

Football is a wargame of land acquisition.

I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

I once took a city with five men and a lame goat.

You can never lose a fight in your own bar, because if you do, it's not your bar anymore.

It doesn't matter if I'm the first. It only matters that I'll be the last

Bring your army, little god! My sword is hungry!

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

We've got to protect our young men and women and we've got to win that, whatever the cost.

I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.

Football will always be about the results because if you are winning and taking good results you are not asking me about the young players.

Young players always want to win things.