Haymitch Abernathy

"You're either brutal or you're dead. Pick one."

"Sponsors are fickle. Entertain them or die."

"I didn't volunteer to be a drunk. The games made me this way."

"The real battle isn't in the arena—it's in your head."

"You can't change what's been done. Only what comes next."

"I mentored you because I saw something worth saving."

"Dream all you want, but know the odds before you bet."

"Humor keeps you sane when nothing else can."

"Beauty doesn't matter in the arena. Survival does."

"The Capitol's watching everything. Never forget that."

"I've lost too many tributes to believe in happy endings."

"Your past doesn't define you unless you let it."

"War is what the games are—sanctioned, televised war."

"History is written by the victors. Remember that."

"Leadership means making choices that haunt you forever."

"I can teach you to survive. I can't teach you to stop caring."

"The Capitol needs us more than we need them. Use that."

"Patience is a weapon. Learn to use it."

"Adventure's just another word for getting yourself killed."

"Imagination is what separates the victors from the corpses."

"I've seen what technology can do when it's used as a weapon."

"Literature teaches you to think. The games teach you to act."

"Faith is for people who don't have to face the games."

"I'm alive because I learned to think like they do."

"Nature doesn't care about your survival. Neither does the Capitol."

"Art is what we make when we're not trying not to die."

"Music's nice, but it won't save your life in the arena."

"Science won't help you when a knife is coming at your throat."

"Freedom is what the games pretend to give you while they steal it."

"Peace is a word they use to describe oppression."