Conor Lamb Quotes

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.

What the SEAL teams do, what our training does, is it chips away the outer that layer and shows you what you're capable of and not capable of.

There's a lot of pressure that comes with being a NFL quarterback wherever you're at, and I'm ready to tackle any situation that's in front of me.

So Hell Week is considered to be the hardest week of the hardest military training in the world. It is a week of continuous military training during which most classes sleep for a total of two to five hours over the course of the entire week.

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.

You can't play with fear in football. There is a lot of respect - you have respect for everybody, the ones on top and the bottom - but never fear.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

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

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

I have so much respect for directors. It's a tremendous amount of pressure; you have to keep steadfast and keep what you know is right.

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.

Basic SEAL training is six months of long, torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.

In the Marines, I was stunned, absolutely stunned, at everything around me, at what the world looked like.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

There's not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That's how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

I do not believe I could have built FedEx without the skills I learned from the Marine Corps.