OT - Favorite [Lord] Horatio Nelson Quotes
In honor of the advent of OT season in three weeks time, I thought about a premature thread dedicated to Lord Nelson and some of his best quotes. Frankly, I could see Harbaugh adopting a few:
No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
In honor of Brexit (no politics!), this one seemed apropos
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
And my personal favorite:
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” - John F. Kennedy
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” - Colin Powell
I believe the o.p. specifically requested Lord Admiral Nelson quotes.
Sure. But I don't know any from Nelson, and I figured quotes from American presidents and generals were no more off topic than ones from a British admiral.
IT'S WAY OFF, DAMMIT!
Okay, okay ... how's this:
A glorious death is to be envied. - Horatio Nelson
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George S. Patton
Readers can decide which advice they'd rather follow.
You can substitute Gilbert and Sullivan lyrics for Nelson quotes and it's pretty much the same thing unless you are English. Or some other tosser.
I do like that last one, though it seems more appropriate to politics than sports.
Still, it provides exercise for the imagination as the season winds down (doldrums?), and I suppose that politics is a bigger part of sport than most of us are comfortable about.
But we're not there quite yet. Go Blue!
"That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all those arguments he lost!" - Dr. McCoy, Star Trek III
“Don’t come a knockin’ when the starships a rockin’!”
Captain James T Kirk
USS Enterprise
"Kirk! From hell's heart I stab at thee!!"
- Khan
Wow, to think I almost bypassed this thread!
I don't know what is going on here.
Username checks out.
“I don’t know what is going on here.”
-CRISPed in the DIAG
I only regret that I have but one POS to give.
You're a towel.
"You are taking - Psychology - 111. Your credit hours are - four. If this is not correct, press 1 now."
-The CRISP Lady
March 27th, 2019 at 10:16 AM ^
CRISP-induced PTSD ensues.
Any idea when CRISP officially retired at UM?
March 27th, 2019 at 10:28 AM ^
Yes, it happened during my time on campus - around 2000 or 2001, when it was replaced by Wolverine Access.
Is snakes out there dis big?!
- Ice Cube
“Snakes, Snakes...I don’t know no Snakes”
Harry, Home Alone
There are SNAKES!!! ON A PLANE!!! - Samuel L Jackson
"If I should die at sea place my body in a cask of brandy and tow it back to England." He didn't actually say that, but that's how Lord Nelson's crew preserved his body after Trafalgar and brought it back home.
"What the fuck." - Tom Delonge, Blink182
Jeannie: "Master is football more important to you than I am?"
Major Nelson: "Of course not, that's like comparing oranges and lemons."
Jeannie: "And I'm the lemon."
“Never mind maneuvers, always go straight at ’em.”
That seems about right for Harbaugh. The quote is featured throughout the Aubrey/Matarin novels, including the first one, Master and Commander. It’s a real Nelson quote, said to Lord Cochrane, who is the inspiration for Jack Aubrey in the novels.
Did someone say...
Brexit?
“I had waaay too much vodka last night. I think the Russians interfered with my erection.”
- Ronald J Pump
I like big butts and I can't lie.
Sir Mix-A-Lot (not quite a Lord)
He has been knighted, a very prestigious honor
I cannot command winds and weather.
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
"I really do not see the signal!"
- while holding his telescope to his blind eye and looking toward a retreat signal
Beat me to it. (At the Battle of Copenhagen.)
This one has exciting possibilities for signal calling from the sidelines. Chaos in space?
The first quote was said before Trafalgar. Probably wouldn't want that to apply to all battles. He said it for that one because they were coming at Spain from the side and splitting their line and he wanted close combat because he thought it favored his troops.
“Never mind the maneuvers, just go straight at them.”
Fictional via Patrick O’Brian, but still a good one.
Not fictional, though O’Brian seems to have added the “straight” ... I’m fairly certain it is attributed to Nelson by Lord Cochrane, so the way it is portrayed in the novels is accurate. (Google failed me just now — I’ll come back and edit if I find the citation.)
I was aware of the enemy, but not fully aware. - Lord Brady Nelson.
“But it's all right now, I’ve learned my lesson well. You see, you can't please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself.” – (Lord) Rick Nelson
ESPN LOVES KILLING KIDS. Science.
-Daniel Tosh
"Ha Ha"
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."
-Admiral David Farragut
"Ooooo, guns, guns, guns! Come on, Sal, the Tigers are playin' tonight! And I never miss a game..."
- Me
March 26th, 2019 at 10:22 PM ^
"Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now! 'Cause when the going gets tough.. The tough get goin'. Who's with me?" -- (Lord) John Blutarsky
March 26th, 2019 at 10:48 PM ^
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
-Kurt Vonnegut
March 26th, 2019 at 11:33 PM ^
Too soon.
Somehow, pre-opening OT season with a post about a potential OT season topic feels like trying to convince the family to open Christmas presents after the Macy's parade because you saw Santa.
i didn't know horatio nelson said that. that's brilliant.
The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.
- Horatio Nelson after a rout of the Neapolitan army, 1798
“Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"
In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he should ask DeGaulle about the Americans buried in France. Dean implied in his answer that that DeGaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Secretary of State Dean Rusk:
"Ask him about the cemeteries Dean!"
That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President DeGaulle.
So at end of the meeting Dean did ask DeGaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II.
DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up and left and never answered.”
― Lyndon Baines Johnson
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/375563-ask-him-about-the-cemeteries-dean-in-1966-upon-being
March 27th, 2019 at 10:45 AM ^
Don't have much good to say about LBJ but I have to admit that was excellent.