# Quote — Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

> I believe him, Dienekes. He's so fucking stupid, this is just the way he would skrew it up.

- Author: [Steven Pressfield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield.md)
- Book: [Gates of Fire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire.md)
- Page: 371
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Pressfield#Gates_of_Fire_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/i-believe-him

## More from this book

> Do you love your country? [...] This man, with his life, has preserved it. Bear him with honor.

p. 430 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/do-you-love.md)

> This aspis was my father's and his father's before him. I have sworn before God to die before another man took this from my hand. He crossed to the ranks of Thespians, to a man, an obscure warrior among them. Into the fellow's grasp he placed the shield.

p. 405 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/this-aspis-was.md)

> Why have I nominated you, lady, to bear up beneath this most terrible of trials, you and your sisters of the Three Hundred? Because you can.

p. 427 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pressfield/gates-of-fire/why-have-i-nominated.md)