Dean Cain Quotes

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.

I've always been curious about why one man jumps out of a foxhole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest, and his buddy next to him sits there cowering. And my feeling is that the difference is tiny between the two.

Real heroes don't wear capes. Real superheroes wear uniforms and badges and stethoscopes! Real superheroes are members of our military, law enforcement, and first responders. Pretend superheroes wear capes!

If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people.

I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.

The President has full responsibility, which cannot be shared, for military decisions in a world in which the difference between safety and cataclysm can be a matter of hours or even minutes.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.

The idea of organizing any kind of defense aroused an almost innate repugnance. Digging into the earth was believed to be a dishonorable gesture for loyal fighters who in their heart of hearts wanted to offer themselves up to danger with their chests exposed. It was an instinctive thing, which seems to have passed down to our age of machines and merciless economic warfare from the reckless chivalry of Agincourt of the elaborate graces of Fontenoy.

Magazines and newspapers commonly took to celebrating the military valor of both Confederate and Union soldiers, as though bravery, rather than morality, were the chief quality to be commemorated.

I think all my characters haunt me. Especially the real-life ones, like Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Tuskagee Airmen. Every time I see a military person, it gives me such a sense of pride but also a sense of responsibility to project excellence when representing them.

I'm not a hero. The military is.

First responders are a resilient lot. They deal with many types of situations and are very good at improvisation in their work.

In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them.

Every Medal of Valor recipient has confronted life-threatening danger. Each had their fight-or-flight moment. But each one stood their ground for our safety. We hold them up as examples to other first responders - and to all Americans.

In life, you don't really know what's coming at you. Like a firefighter, or police officer, or anyone else working in the emergency field, they don't know what's going to come at them. You gotta be ready for anything.

Everyone knows I like to fight injured. Half the fights I've taken, I've always been injured.

Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.

Our heroes in the armed forces and our first responders are all essential to the freedom and safety of our great nation.

We have to be more courageous and braver and sometimes take a knock. You can't just be a pretty boy, you have to get your body or something on it. When it is a one-on-one situation you have to carry out that duty.