Drill Sergeant Quotes

• If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Thinking, Would Be

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• Because I am hard, you will not like me. But the more you hate me, the more you will learn. I am hard but I am fair.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Hate, Jackets, Like Me

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• All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.

  Robert McKee

  Writing, Discipline, Drills

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• Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Order, Discipline

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• I watched the video [ with my first commercial] when I was 20, and in the video, there are two families. The first family is this smiling blond Partridge family, a Californian/Aryan kind of thing, all playing guitars, all singing together and harmonizing. And then, there's my family - and in my family, it starts with my mom saying that she feels like a drill sergeant sometimes, and she's yelling at one of my brothers to stop hitting another one of my brothers. It's just like, "Great, we're that family." It felt a little Simpsons versus Flanders.

  Mara Wilson

  Mom, Brother, Yelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went to the surplus store on Santa Monica and Vine (in Los Angeles) and went and got me a Navy outfit, put the black tape under my eyes. I got me a whistle and went in there with a hat looking like a full-on drill sergeant.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Eye, Black, Navy

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• I spent six years in the army. That's the reason I am like a drill sergeant sometimes.

  Dharma Mittra

  Yoga, Army, Years

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• Tawny," I barked. My voice held the authority of a drill sergeant. She jumped. "I am NOT making out with you until the end of time. You want to do this, then you've got to work for it. Now, TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES." "Oh," said Hugh. "I've waited ten years to hear you say that to another woman.

  Richelle Mead

  Years, Voice, Clothes

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Succubus Dreams: Urban Fantasy”, p.156, Random House

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• Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Wonderful, States

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• My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Father, Character, Trying

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• I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.

  Kate Hudson

  Teacher, Dancing, Dancer

  "Kate Hudson Wants You to Wear Gym Clothes On a Date". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. June 8, 2015.

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