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I was surprised to find we don’t have a speeches thread.
I’ll start this thread with nice oration from CO QRH, someone can top it up with Churchill et al.
'War Is Not A Game': Army Officer Gives Rousing Boxing Night Speech
You hear professional athletes talk about the sports field like it's the battlefield. But for me, I think we need to be careful with that."
"When we go to war as the Queen's Royal Hussars, we don't know how long we'll go for.
"We'll fight an enemy that won't play by the rules. There will be no umpire, there will be no referee.
"When we go, it won't be about scoring goals or points, it's going to be about life or death."
"We're going for the highest possible reasons, which will be to defend our nation, to defend our national interests, to defend the things that we think are important about the way we live our lives.
"So sport isn't war, and war is certainly not a game.
"However, sport is a great way to train some of the things we need to do to be good at warfare - and boxing is the ultimate sport for doing that."
I’ll start this thread with nice oration from CO QRH, someone can top it up with Churchill et al.
'War Is Not A Game': Army Officer Gives Rousing Boxing Night Speech
You hear professional athletes talk about the sports field like it's the battlefield. But for me, I think we need to be careful with that."
"When we go to war as the Queen's Royal Hussars, we don't know how long we'll go for.
"We'll fight an enemy that won't play by the rules. There will be no umpire, there will be no referee.
"When we go, it won't be about scoring goals or points, it's going to be about life or death."
"We're going for the highest possible reasons, which will be to defend our nation, to defend our national interests, to defend the things that we think are important about the way we live our lives.
"So sport isn't war, and war is certainly not a game.
"However, sport is a great way to train some of the things we need to do to be good at warfare - and boxing is the ultimate sport for doing that."