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“Gentlemen,�� he said. “I give you The Eagle’s Covenant.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

“He shuffled up to the stake and examined the impaled, naked, dead man. The stake entered his anus and protruded through his gaping mouth, his death mask frozen in a look of horror.”
― Anthony Hulse, Scent of the Dragon

“The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.'

There was a long silence as Andrew deciphered the cryptic statement. 'A FULL orchestra?”
― D.J. Stutley

“Above all, [Jock Lewes] sought to instill supreme physical stamina and self-confidence, to make the men so inured to hardship that the reality, when it came, would feel almost easy. “The confident man will win,�� Lewes insisted.”
― Ben Macintyre, Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

“No one was expecting the six-man team of elite SAS officers to storm the prison, but that is exactly what they did do. Hurling stun grenade and tear gas canisters, they entered the jail through a skylight before freeing the terrified prison warder.”
― Stephen Richards, Scottish Hard Bastards

“A famous Russian Field Marshal and opponent of Napoleon, Count Alexander V. Suvorov (1729��1800), once said, ‘Train hard and fight easy.�� It has become a famous Army quotation, often repeated. He got it spot on, especially where the SAS is concerned.”
― Geordie Doran, Geordie: SAS Fighting Hero

“The American Airborne Forces had truly lived up to their motto, which was emblazoned in big letters over their camp gates: STRAC, meaning ‘Skilled, Tough and Ready Around the Clock.�� To some wags in the SAS this was interpreted as ‘Shit, The Russians Are Coming!�� However, for many years afterwards in the SAS to be ‘strac�� meant you were ready. [Concerning SAS training at Fort Bragg in 1962.]”
― Geordie Doran, Geordie: SAS Fighting Hero