Richard Marcinko
Richard Marcinko
Richard "Dick" Marcinkois a retired U.S. Navy SEAL commander and Vietnam War veteran. He was the first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six and Red Cell. After retiring from the United States Navy, he became an author, radio talk show host, military consultant, and motivational speaker...
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth21 November 1940
CityLansford, PA
popularity
Popularity is not leadership.
leader followers world
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders.
sacrifice fighting battle
When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy. You fight to keep him alive, and he fights to keep you alive, and you go on that way, day after day, battle after battle. And when one of your buddies dies, something inside you dies as well. But you go on. You fight, so that his death isn't meaningless, his sacrifice isn't for nothing.
pain bad-ass way
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.
motivation desire limits
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.
failure risk kind
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.
training combat
The more thou sweateth in training, the less thou bleedeth in combat.
patriotic firsts asks
Shoot first and ask questions not at all
winning past opponents
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.