I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

I'm all about the cold tub. I'm big on the ice bath, being able to soak in there and let your body heal.

Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

I have led men in combat.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

That's what you want to do as a manager, finish the game, get in your bath and think about the kids going home, the young kids going home.

The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.

As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Belly buttons were a big battle of mine. Down at the syndicate, they would clip them out with a razor blade. I began putting so many of them in, in the margins and everywhere, that they had a little box down there called 'Beetle Bailey''s Belly-Button Box. The editors finally gave up after I did one strip showing a delivery of navel oranges.

I'm not getting into a public debate with Jack Nicklaus.

Roderick Strong - we've had some of my favorite battles.

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

As Congress battles over spending and cost cutting, it is imperative that funding for math education programs does not fall victim.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

I don't think it's such a bad thing to have internal debate between coach and leading players.