Erwin Rommel Quotes, Thoughts and images

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

The German soldier has impressed the world, however the Italian Bersagliere soldier has impressed the German soldier.

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone.

When there's no clear option, it's better to do nothing.

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?

The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

Manstein is a man of illusions. He believes Hitler will listen to facts.

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

I didn't die nor win.

Good soldiers, bad officers; however don't forget that without them we would not have any Civilization.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.

I would rather he had given me one more division

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.