Ryan Zinke Quotes

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

You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable.

Hard training - easy combat; easy training - hard combat.

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

You cannot go into combat without putting the work in.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the Special Forces. That was really was the turning point in my life. I became more disciplined and focused. I went overseas and was in combat, got wounded a couple of times, lost a lot of good friends but matured a great deal.

I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to put yourself through and it makes you better. It gets you in good shape, so it's necessary.

I learned in my Ph.D. the discipline I needed to be successful. Most boxers are not that disciplined. They have talent, but the self-organization - the ability to schedule yourself and your priorities - is lacking. My studies were about the control of training on both the psychological and the physical side.

We require our fighters to be ready hurricanes, on-call combat machines. We want them held easily in check, and we expect light-switch control over their aggression…. We vaguely hope their anger does not spill over, or come home.

To be the best, you need to be the most well-trained and well-prepared athlete you can be. The pressure is going to be all around you. You just have to make sure that your body and mind is fine-tuned. Then you go out there and do it.

I respect all my opponents and they do the same thing that I do to get ready for fights.

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.

I need eight weeks, train hard, last one week make weight, and go to the war. Because when I go to the war, I have to know I am ready or no.

I did 510 days SEAL training.

I love my country, and the mental and physical demands of the Navy SEALs was what I had been training for my whole life growing up in Montana.

I'm always prepared for five, six rounds. I train hard. Sometimes it's over quickly, but you have to be prepared for every round, always respecting your opponent.

If you ask a soldier what is the key to this confidence, they will likely answer their discipline and their training.

When I'm shooting things, I'm training.

I am an athlete in every sense of the word. Athlete, martial artist.

When we're not on the practice field, I'm watching tape, and when I'm not watching tape, I'm doing body work or something like that.

I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.

When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.

As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.