Barney Ross Quotes

I went to the Naval Academy in Annapolis and then I went right into the Navy after that.

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.

Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim.

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

I'm a reasonably good actor, and I'm an average naval officer. Ha, ha!

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that.

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

I was sent to Naval School when I was young, and it didn't do me any good in any other form, but it made me get up in the morning.