Richard Marcinko

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

— Richard Marcinko

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.

— Richard Marcinko

Popularity is not leadership.

— Richard Marcinko

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.

— Richard Marcinko

We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life.

— Richard Marcinko