“Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.”
![“What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.” quote by Magnus Carlsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c9/magnus-carlsen-11607_ability_what-i-admired-most-about-him-bobby-fisc_1446991.jpg)
![“The mere fact that [Tommy Atkins] saw himself as a hero, and not as the rough he was, enlisted, more probably, through hunger, and disciplined by fear, tended to make him behave like a hero, as he did on the Ridge of Delhi and in the fog at Inkermann.” quote by Esme Cecil Wingfield-Stratford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c06/esme-cecil-wingfield-stratford_behave_the-mere-fact-that-tommy-atkins-saw-hims_1881753.jpg)
