I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It’s interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish’s can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
Moving into an unoccupied village when there’s no opposition, I don’t call that a military victory. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I’ve met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
Good generalship is a realization that… you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
I’m not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you’re not dedicated to your cause, if you don’t have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army. Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote
You can’t help but… with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, ‘Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn’t be facing what we are facing today.’ Norman Schwarzkopf Read Quote