Omar N. Bradley Quotes

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I have fought for many years. I have killed many men. I have never seen a foreigner die.

In war you don’t have to be nice, you just have to be right.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

What the hell is going on? I thought we were winning the war.

Ah, colonel, all’s fair in love and war, you know.

There is no such thing as fighting on the winning side: one fights to find out which is the winning side.

We made war to the end—to the very end of the end.

There are only two ways to come back from the battlefield: With the head of an enemy or without your own.

We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

When you're at war you do what it takes to win.

To be able to battle is very important.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.