Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Unfortunately, if you've ever been in southern Georgia on the beaches in a lightning storm, if you're out there, you're in great, great danger, and you can be killed very, very quickly.”

“When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.”

“I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.”

“Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.”

“I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.”

“War is a profane thing.”

“I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.”

“I like to say I'm not a hero.”

“Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.”

“For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.”