battle-hardened Quotes

I'm an indestructible master of war.

I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

I'm a combat soldier.

I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I’m sick of the whole ‘my gun will solve all’ mentality. (Wulf)

Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

Warriors always have a certain gleam in their eyes.

In a sense, all Americans are battle-born. Our ancestors came here for something better.

The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

The Celts were harder than anyone else, tougher, and rugged. We battered everybody.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.

Former soldiers will almost always gravitate to the anti-war party. This happens for obvious reasons. The men who have been in battle tend not to romanticize it and tend not to take it flippantly.

Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

I have had a tough life, but I am proud that I fought my battle.

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Rambo was a Green Beret," Hannah said. "Please. We eat those army boys for breakfast.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!