Captain Quotes

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

I'd like to think that every captain around the world has a vision of how they want their teams to play and most of them are allowed to take their teams forward in their own way.

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

But I just think as a captain, everybody's different.

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

There can be only one Captain to a ship.

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.

He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.