Rodney Frelinghuysen Quotes

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.

To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

You're taught that you can keep going in the military. Your point of collapse is not what you thought it was. Your body is built to survive, and when you think you're going to collapse, you still have so much more left in you.

Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.

There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

Quit now? They'll have to cut the uniform off me. I'm going out for another 300. They couldn't be any harder to get than the first 300.

Boot camp sucks - SEAL training sucks - but you know what? That's what makes you good.

Like it or not, Jesse Ventura is a Navy SEAL. He did the pushups and put up with the cold water, just like the rest of us.

As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

After I arrived in the United States, I realized that in the army, Israelis learn how to be part of something bigger than themselves.

We had church and sports, and that's how we stuck together. We were so hungry sometimes, but if somebody's playing football, you can completely forget about eating until later on that night.

Being a person of the armed forces is not easy. Performing it is also not easy. There is a sense of discipline and body language that you need to have throughout.

When you're losing that tends to kind of build the character of everybody together.

Serving in the Israeli Army taught me what it means to be part of something greater than yourself.

I remember when I was a private soldier. I remember the days when I was taken care of and when I was not taken care of.

We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.