Quotes of: John-wooden Keyword

Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.

David Douglas Duncan

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

Eugene Cernan

Neil Armstrong was probably one of the most human guys I've ever known in my life.

Eugene Cernan

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

James Stockdale

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

Laurel Clark

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Pat Robertson

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

Robert McFarlane

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

Robin Quivers

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Benjamin Spock

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Charles de Gaulle

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

Erwin Rommel

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

F. Lee Bailey

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

Frank Leahy

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.

Frederick W. Smith

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

George Armstrong Custer

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Charles de Gaulle

A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

The reason we call ships "she" is that it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

Horatio Nelson

They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.

Hyman G. Rickover

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

James F. Amos