Alistair Overeem Quotes

I joined the Marines, passed Special Forces selection, and became a young leader in the military.

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

To Arms! To Arms! 100 Men Needed.

Whenever America sends its citizens into harm's way, it must do so with eyes wide open.

I would like to have had that experience of combat. I would have liked to.

When a recruiter first told me about the Navy SEALs, I knew it was the right fit.

I spent 17 years in the Brazilian army.

I knew that I wanted to apply for a job in the Air Force, that I couldn't because it was a direct-combat, ground-combat role.

When you're in the military, especially if you serve, you leave in this heightened world of having adrenaline course through you, all the time. You get addicted to that because adrenaline is essentially a drug.

Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.

I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

My sentence is for open war.

Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you

Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you be contemplating an attack, at all?" "It had crossed my mind, I must admit," said Jack. "Indeed, I may go so far as to say, that I am afraid a conflict is now virtually inevitable. Did you notice we have cleared for action?

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

I will not vote to send my sons, or your sons, daughters, brothers, sisters or friends to fight for a stalemate.

I think the President ought to bring everybody that's in American uniform back because we're headed for war.