That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
From Louis Zamperini
Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.
Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.
All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God.
If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.
When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.
I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.
I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!
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