Ric Prado > Quotes

“Ray’s next lesson to me: amateurs plan tactics, professionals plan logistics.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“Mike worked sixty-hour weeks minimum and attacked our mission with all the zeal of a religious adherent. More than anyone else, he saw in Bin Laden a clear and present danger to the United States.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“Jihadist groups are the hardest to penetrate because they are true believers.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t cling to the phases of life as they come and go. They are to be experienced as you keep moving forward, setting goals and staying on the path God intended for you.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“I also learned that loyalty is the greatest gift you can share or receive, while betrayal inflicts the brutal wounds to the heart.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“We sleep safely in our beds, because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“The COS offered a warm smile and said, “Alex is my man on this.” Translation from diplomatic speak: “Fuck you.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“Their crusade became my crusade. Our enemy was the communists and communism. That particular -ism sparked not the utopia it so loudly proclaimed but instead visited horrors on average people. Everywhere communists gained control, people suffered. Pol Pot in Cambodia. Stalin. The staggering bloodshed of Mao Tse-tung’s “Cultural Revolution” in China. The purges and violence”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“I’d never planned my career. I’d never looked down the road. I just kept focused on doing the best I could in the job I had, throwing my heart and mind into every assignment.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“Avoid the fight if you can. But if you have no choice, go in for total destruction and take the fight out of your opponent. Half measures will only get you hurt.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

“Last, but not least, legendary Special Forces Sergeant Major Billy Waugh, who till this day is a role model.”
― Ric Prado, Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior