Quotes About Captains

it is unlikely that any of the ships' captains seriously considered steering their damaged and undermanned vessels to either Barbuda or the Bermudas in search of the Sea Venture. Instead, the storm would have convinced all the captains to steer for Virginia and what they hoped and prayed would be safety.

Our present condition is the result of following the leadership of idealists and philanthropic doctrinaires, aided and abetted by the perfectly understandable demand of our captains of industry for cheap labor. To-day

Look at France and Didier Deschamps; he was just a guy who just did his job but he was captain of one of France's most successful teams. Then you've got Iker Casillas; he's not into PR or things like that, but he's one of the most successful captains of Spain.

The captains of the national team are the ones that have played the most matches. That's what I had in the national team. Maximum respect to those players.

Old man — don't let's forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives, and that we obey them without knowing it.

One thing Scott's tactical instructions didn't adequately clarify was how his destroyer captains would bring their torpedoes to bear. Torpedoes were the killing weapons of naval war, and much easier to aim than guns were.

Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Mendoza returned to Victoria, where he and the other captains resumed plotting against Magellan

Encouraged, the captains and pilots indicated they were strongly in favor of pushing on—all but one, that is.

The three volumes on the case compiled by Police Captain Vincent Doyle and exhaustive investigations by Captain Wilmott's lifelong friend Captain George Seeth provide further evidence. As far as is known, Doyle and Seeth never met. Neither was even aware of the other's existence. Yet, somewhat astonishingly, both came to the conclusion that Rogers poisoned Captain Wilmott as a deliberate act of retaliation.

There's rule changes every year. I do wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk; we're the guys on the field.

At that point Lord Agamemnon, Atreus' son, began shitting whole goats," laughs Orus, speaking loudly enough that several captains turn to frown at us.

It wasn't we who invented war,' the group commander said. 'It was war which created us. From the loins of man's furious ineradicable greed sprang the captains and the colonels to his necessity. We are his responsibility; he shall not shirk it.

There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.

The opponent I have most admired during my career is Paolo Maldini.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

In my days, I played under several captains, none of whom were alike.

You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

The death of a man is like the fall of a mighty nation That had valiant armies, captains, and prophets, And wealthy ports and ships all over the seas.

I think each one has his own style. I think, with me, I have always commanded the respect of my captains and I have always set my own field.

Being adventurous and open to something different is something I'd encourage captains to do.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.