Richard Marcinko Quotations

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Have character, but don't be a character.

For the past weeks I'd been reacting. That was no way to win. To win, you take the initiative. You instigate the action. You make the opponent react to you.

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

Call it a character flaw -- when under attack, I counter attack. Always.

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.