MJ Hegar Quotes

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does.

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

I'm not a hero. The military is.

I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load.

I've seen men and women who were fit for combat that I wanted to fight beside, and men and women who I really wouldn't want to go back into combat with. It really doesn't have anything to do with gender.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

Men are brave enough to go to war, but they are not brave enough to get a bikini wax.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

I shall gain glory or die.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

Valor is the soldier's adornment.

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

Courage is a mutual thing.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.