"In Naval Special Warfare, you have an exceptionally highly motivated individual who is a risk taker. Somebody who is going to go out there, take on the biggest challenge that you have, and, oh, by the way, they�re going to succeed, because they don�t have the word failure in their vocabulary."
- RADM T.R. Richards
commander
Naval Special Warfare
"Our guys thrive on the challenge, and when there are things going on in the world, they want to be the first ones there. That�s what we live for. Ya know, the cream rises to the top. These guys all want to be the cream."
- Unknown U.S. Navy SEAL
"Our philosophy is that which does not kill you makes you stronger, and when these young men have to go out and perform their mission in a SEAL team, they push the envelope. And, what we try to do is provide safe training that builds their confidence and builds their spirit, but also to, keeps them safe."
- Unknown U.S. Navy SEAL
"A SEAL is a guy who is willing to do whatever is necessary to get the job done. What makes SEALs different than other conventional forces and other forces throughout the world is we all share a common bond. The BUD/S training, the HELL WEEK, all that stuff, it is still the core of what we are."
- Unknown U.S. Navy SEAL
"I think it�s not difficult to prepare for war. It is difficult to maintain that level of preparedness for long periods of time. We�ve got to have real bullets, real ranges, and we�ve got to shoot in real training scenarios in order to be confident."
- Unknown U.S. Navy SEAL
"We have no problem keeping the edge in special operations. We treat every mission as if it were for real. That�s the way we train, and that�s the way we win."
- Brig. Gen. Frank J. Toney Jr.
Commander S.O.C.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- George Orwell
"Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt."
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"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
"The only easy day was yesterday."
- U.S. Navy SEALs
"There is no ' I ' in TEAM."
- U.S. Navy SEALs
"Anyone can just go in there and kill someone, but you can't get information from a corpse."
- U.S. Navy SEAL Motto
"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
- Various Special Ops Instructors
"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm's way."
- John Paul Jones (later adopted by the US Navy's Special Boat Units)
"The Exertion of Better Men"
- Motto for Special Boat Unit 22, Det 122- Sacramento , Ca.
"If you kill for fun your a sadist, if you kill for money your a professional, if you kill for money and fun your a SEAL"
- Found on a sign on the wall of a SEAL base in the Mekong Delta
"We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here."
- Col. Charlie Beckwith, founder of Delta Force
"It's a question of mind over matter, I don't mind and you don't fucking matter"
- The Elite, article on Royal Marine Commandos boot camp
"Only the dead see the end of war"
- Plato
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