Channing Tatum Quotes

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

I want to play a man in uniform. I've got tremendous respect for that life that they lead. We know so little about it. It's never discussed or talked about, when they come back from battle. I want to examine the choices that have to be made in those terrible times. [...] I'll get to wear a uniform.

If you talk to these young men and women who are fighting, they'll tell you that they think it's a worthwhile cause, and they're fighting for freedom, and they-well, they-all I'm saying-the overwhelming majority of them do.

If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

The soldier's lot is the most melancholy relic of barbarism (next to capital punishment) that lingers on among mankind.

For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.

I know what soldiers or their families go through.

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.

'The Wall' doesn't recount a specific soldier's experience in Iraq, but it captures the spirit of many experiences that were shared with me and with Aaron Taylor-Johnson and with John Cena.

I've been a paratrooper all my life.

I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

Nicknamed 'Mad-Dog Mattis' by his men, he was a command warrior in the old George Patton mode. He wasn't an armchair general by any definition of that much-maligned term. If a Marine re-upped at a location where he was present, he would personally go to that Marine and thank him or her for rejoining.

I served in the Israeli Navy, and it's not an easy thing.

I'm a combat soldier.

The best time of being a Marine was Afghanistan. There will never be a time when I'm sleeping in the dirt and I haven't showered in four months and I'm with 50 of the people that I'll be the closest with ever.

I spent 17 years in the Brazilian army.

I believe that the fighters know. It's just the people not actually fighting who need to understand more that we're putting our lives on the line.

When you're in the military, you teeter on the edge of that line of life and death. The reason you feel so alive when you come through is because you know you've cheated death - and that and the adrenaline rush is addictive, no question.