David Hackworth Quotes

My father was a disciplinarian. He had this cane and he would spare no one if found at fault. Unlike Babita, I was not physically strong and couldn't cope with the training. So I got the most beatings.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

Americans should be treated as a naughty spaniel. If it snaps at you, hit it across the face.

Sometimes we'd have to climb a tree and pick our own whips to be disciplined with. When you had to pick your own whip, you knew you were in for it.

Basic training is horrible. It's dirty, and it's ugly. But you learn it's not just about you. It makes you part of a team, which helps you to survive.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.

My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

My grandmother used to discipline me, I mean, beat my ass, and I deserved them, too.

When you chastised a youngster back in the early ages, we called it a whipping.

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.

My mother was the most wicked mother ever seen in life when it came to beating. Oh-la-la! Every time I would say, 'This is the end of me.' Oh, how she would beat me.

If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.

You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.

We are extending basic training. It'll be the longest and toughest in the world.

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.

I got a lot of whoopings back in the day. I was a very curious kid.

When I first started to learn to run the ropes, that was really painful for me: it's just cable wire wrapped in tape. It bruised my ribs so bad, it hurt to be hugged; it hurt to lay down.