Quotes About Chesty Puller

#1. If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

Chesty Puller

#2. Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines".

Chesty Puller

#3. I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

Eartha Kitt

#4. I want to go where the guns are!

Chesty Puller

#5. Paperwork will ruin any military force.

Chesty Puller

#6. One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.

Debra Ginsberg

#7. Mine is the least fat diet in the world.

Pierre Dukan

#8. Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.

Chesty Puller

#9. In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.

Chesty Puller

#10. Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

Chesty Puller

#11. What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt ... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.

Chesty Puller

#12. They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

Chesty Puller

#13. I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.

Bob Stoops

#14. The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war.

Chesty Puller

#15. Usually I don't think much in terms of interesting sounds. Although I think I want to get one of those whammy pedals, I forget what it's called and who makes it. It's got a whole bunch of different settings. You can play a note and it will raise the pitch when you push the pedal.

Mike Gordon

#16. My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower them and leave them alone.

Ruth Reichl

#17. If we are going to win the next war, in my opinion, 50 percent of the time of training should be allotted to night training.

Chesty Puller

#18. So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

Chesty Puller

#19. But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

Philip Kaufman

#20. There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

Chesty Puller

#21. We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

Chesty Puller

#22. I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear ... Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.

Chesty Puller

#23. All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

Amanda Seyfried

#25. And you will understand all too soon
That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

Nikki Giovanni

#26. In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

Chesty Puller

#27. You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.

Joe Teti

#28. You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

Chesty Puller