Louis Zamperini Quotes & Sayings

“Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.”

“All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God.”

“If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.”

“That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.”

“I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.”

“When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.”

“Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.”

“I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!”

“I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.”

“I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.”