Combat Quotes - Page 29

• To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Eye, Luck, Agility

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• Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

  Sting

  Men, Boots, Adages

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• The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.

  Werner Molders

  Victory, Important, Pilots

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• I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner. Distance and deflection were carefully judged before firing. This is not something that comes by accident; only by experience can a pilot overcome feelings of panic. A thousand missions could be flown and be of no use if the pilot has not exchanged fire with the enemy.

  John Trevor Godfrey

  Distance, Fire, Feelings

  John Trevor Godfrey (1958). “The look of eagles”

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• As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

  Adolf Galland

  Running, Thinking, Long

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• Months of preparation, one of those few opportunities, and the judgment of a split second are what makes some pilot an ace, while others think back on what they could have done.

  Pappy Boyington

  Opportunity, Thinking, Preparation

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• Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Taken, Aviation

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• Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Optimistic, Rose, Vision

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

  Bruce Lee

  Guy, Too Much, Students

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• Other factors affecting the '109 as a combat plane include the small cramped cockpit. This is quite a tiring working environment, although the view out (in flight) is better than you might expect; the profuseion of canopy struts is not particularly a problem. In addition to the above the small cockpit makes you feel more a part of the aeroplane.

  Mark Ashley Hanna

  Views, Might, Flight

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• But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

  Vanessa Mae

  Strong, Thinking, Mind

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• The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

  Richard Marcinko

  Training

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• Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.

  Pierre Boutroux

  Knowledge, Math, Order

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• Look at me. Home boy wore combat boots to the beach. I know you don’t want to call that your boyfriend, I know you don’t.

  Lauren Conrad

  Beach, Home, Boys

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• INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.

  Adolph Malan

  Team, Mean, Fighting

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• Go in quickly - Punch Hard - Get out!

  Adolph Malan

  Aviation, Hard

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• As we went through mach one, the nose started dropping, so we just cranked that horizontal stabilizer down to keep the nose up. We got it above mach one, and once we got it above the speed of sound, then you have supersonic flow over the whole airplane, so you have no more shock waves on it that are causing buffeting...You really don't think about the outcome of any kind of a flight, whether it's combat, or any other kinds of flights, because you really have no control over it.

  Chuck Yeager

  Airplane, Thinking, Flow

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 1, 1991.

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• How does 2002 bombing accident in Afghanistan happen? In this awful case it took so many lives, and I want to assure the families and the people of Canada that these questions will be answered. How this can happen is a mystery to us.

  Ray Henault

  Aviation, Mystery, Happens

  "Probe Begins Into U.S. Bombing That Killed Four Canadians". www.foxnews.com. April 19, 2002.

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• Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Responsibility, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe, or studying for a doctor's degree at MIT. They have been always very supportive and understanding of the challenges and risks involved in my career. A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Team, Korea, Europe

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Eye, Thinking, Roles

  "The Star of Africa". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

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• We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Suffering, Responsible, Formulas

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.38, David C Cook

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• Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

  Bruce Lee

  Names, Roots, Style

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• I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

  Dick Rutan

  Vietnam, Aviation, Flight

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• ... four other pieces of equipment that most senior officers came to regard as among the most vital to our success in Africa and Europe were the bulldozer, the jeep, the 2--ton truck, and the C-47 airplane. Curiously, none of these is designed for combat.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Senior, Airplane, Europe

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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