Veteran Quotes

• I think as a veteran player, in general, you should feel that sense of responsibility to try to lead these guys to becoming good pros. You want the league to be in good hands, and you want these guys to become great NFL players and then pass it along to the next generation. You can only lead by example, and that's pretty much what I'm trying to do.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Responsibility
  • Player
  • League

• If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is this: They never forgot your generosity. They never forgot the power of opportunity. They never forgot the American dream.

  

  Michael Mullen
  • American
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• There is a massive problem with veteran suicides.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Problem
  • Veteran
  • Suicides

• Every veteran out there, veteran or rookie, they want to go to the Super Bowl and win it and get the best opportunity.

  

  DeAngelo Williams
  • Opportunity
  • Veteran

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

  

  Winfield Scott
  • Brave
  • Blood
  • Baptized

• I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.

  

  Scott Brooks
  • Player
  • Matter
  • Able

• No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Claims
  • Veteran
  • Impatient

• Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.

  

  Edgar Wilson Nye
  • Spring
  • Laugh
  • Price

• Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

  

  Sean Patrick Maloney
  • Helping
  • Safety
  • Farmers

• A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • War
  • Peace
  • Boys

• Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.

  

  Miguel Cabrera
  • Forget
  • Veteran
  • Either

• It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.

  

  Bill Cowher
  • Christian
  • Veteran
  • Quaterback

• The issue of torture, connected to American soldiers, is not somewhere most people want to linger. We may not want to confront this issue so much in the U.S. because of how we want to think about our veterans. There's the sense that we want to think of our veterans as - if they're damaged, damaged by something glamorous, like a firefight.

  

  Russell Banks
  • People
  • Soldier
  • Torture

• Not surprised. He's a Big Ten veteran. Those are the kinds of guys you build programs around.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Build
  • Surprised
  • Programs

• Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.

  

  Curtis White
  • Suffering
  • Care
  • Selfish

• More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

  

  Eric Shinseki
  • Position
  • Veteran
  • Employees

• While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • President
  • Rich
  • Taxes

• But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.

  

  Nick Lampson
  • Opportunity
  • Patriotism
  • Veteran

• Not at all. He's a Big Ten veteran.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Veteran

• I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Teenager
  • Veteran

• Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exemption...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • World
  • Country
  • War

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