Top 100 Chris Kyle Quotes
#1. It was a tragic end to a heroic life.
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#2. I hated running, but I was beginning to develop the right mind-set: Do whatever it takes. THIS
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#3. Just because war is hell doesn't mean you can't have a little fun.
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#4. Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems,
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#5. Decades of Saddam's rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.
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#6. Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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#7. I certainly found most of the Marines and soldiers I worked with to be top-notch. You had your exceptions - but then you have your exceptions in the Navy, too.
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#8. Of course, it took a while to learn all this. Anytime I messed up, my boss would let me know. Right away he'd cuss me out, tell me I was a worthless piece of shit. But I never got pissed at David. In my mind, I thought, I'm better than that and I'll show you. As it happens, that's exactly the
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#9. The pilot himself was a good guy. He didn't act stuck up or high and mighty; you'd never know he was an officer.
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#10. Saddam had buried a bunch of his fighters in the desert. He had them covered with plastic and then tried to hide them. Probably he figured we'd come through like we did in Desert Storm, hit quick and then leave. He was wrong about that.
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#11. A DRUNKEN brawl in Kuwait, since there really aren't any bars where you can drink alcohol. But it just so happened that there was a restaurant where we liked to eat, and where, not so coincidentally, it was easy to sneak in alcohol. We were there one night and started to get a
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#12. I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
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#13. The number is not important to me. I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives.
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#14. Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.
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#15. I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.
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#16. I don't know how high I went, I don't wanna know. Heights are not my favorite thing. It makes my balls go in my throat just thinking about it.
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#17. Make that peace or war, marriage was our next step together. Happily, we've survived it all.
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#18. Working on a ranch is heaven. It's a hard life, featuring plenty of hard work, and yet at the same time it's an easy life. You're outside all the time. Most days it's just you and the animals. You don't have to deal with people or offices or any petty bullshit. You just do your job.
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#19. You forget how beautiful life is, if you don't get a chance to see things like that.
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#20. None of my problems come from the people I've killed.
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#21. The media cause more problems than they do good.
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#22. Obviously, I can't write about most of that; what I saw of the overall battle was like looking at an enormous landscape painting through a tiny straw. W
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#23. It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.
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#24. I had to wonder why these people weren't protesting at their congressional offices or in Washington. Protesting the people who were ordered to protect them - let's just say it put a bad taste in my mouth.
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#25. War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good ... war sucks.
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#26. In a sense, I had to step away from the job to become the fuller man my family needed me to be.
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#27. The thing we all had in common wasn't muscle; it was the will to do whatever it takes.
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#28. Fuck, I thought to myself, this is great. I fucking love this. It's nerve-wracking and exciting and I fucking love it.
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#29. was too senior to do the bullshit jobs and too junior to do the political jobs. I was just right.
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#30. They naturally thought that anyone who was good should have a very high rank.
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#33. The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.
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#34. It's not the people you saved that you remember. It's the ones you couldn't save. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.
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#35. I don't have to psych myself up, or do something special mentally - I look through the scope, get my target in the cross hairs, and kill my enemy, before he kills one of my people.
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#36. Marines - you beat them down and they come back for more.
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#37. And I got used to the battles. Getting shot at was just part of the job. RPG round? Just another day at the office.
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#38. I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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#39. I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.
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#40. Maybe war isn't really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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#41. He'd already accepted that he was going to die, and he wanted to do it there, not at home from a disease he couldn't fight with a gun or his fists. "It doesn't matter," he told me. "I'll die and you'll find someone else. People die out here all the time. Their wives go on and find someone else.
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#42. The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they're not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.
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#43. There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
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#44. It's funny
sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.
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#45. Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.
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#46. I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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#47. Despite what your momma told ya, violence does solve problems.
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#48. Not the work, really, but what went along with it. The bureaucracy. The fact that he had to work in an office. He really hated having to wear a suit and tie every day.
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#49. It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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#50. No SEAL has ever actually admitted feeling pain since the beginning of Creation.
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#51. I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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#53. Right away he'd cuss me out, tell me I was a worthless piece of shit. But I never got pissed at David. In my mind, I thought, I'm better than that and I'll show you. As it happens,
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#54. Helping each other out, that's America.
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#55. According to the ROEs I followed in Iraq, if someone came into my house, shot my wife, my kids, and then threw his gun down, I was supposed to NOT shoot him. I was supposed to take him gently into custody. Would you?
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#56. Get it. I, of course, had to stay in my push-up
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#57. The tribal leaders saw that we were bad-asses, and they'd better get their act together, work together, and stop accommodating the insurgents. Force moved that battle. We killed the bad guys and brought the leaders to the peace table. That is how the world works.
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#58. The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
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#59. You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.
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#60. Why do SEALs fight so much? I haven't made a scientific study of it, but I think a lot is owed to pent-up aggression. We're trained to go out and kill people. And then, at the same time, we're also being taught to think of ourselves as invincible bad-asses.
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#61. PEOPLE TELL ME I SAVED HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF people. But I have to tell you: it's not the people you saved that you remember. It's the ones you couldn't save.
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#62. What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.
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#63. Just like in any relationship, things changed. We changed. We both made mistakes and we both learned a lot. We may love each other differently, but maybe that is a good thing. Maybe it is more forgiving and more mature, or maybe it is just different.
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#64. Love John Wayne. I love his cowboy movies especially, which makes sense I guess. Rio Bravo may be my favorite.
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#65. I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.
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#66. It's cruel, maybe, but it's hard to sympathize with grief when it's over someone who just tried to kill you.
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#68. You miss them so much when they deploy, and you want them to be home, but then when they are, things aren't perfect. And you feel as if they should be. Depending on the deployment and what I'd been through, I also had emotions ranging from sadness to anxiety to anger.
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#69. All the time, I was thinking: "This isn't too hard."
And: "I'm going to get attacked any second.
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#70. We were both changing and growing in totally separate worlds. He had no firsthand knowledge of mine and I had no firsthand knowledge of his.
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#71. Someone once asked me if I had a favorite distance. My answer was easy: the closer the better.
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#72. I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. But I truly, deeply hated the evil that woman possessed. I hate it to this day.
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#74. Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.
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#75. But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It's no big deal.
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#76. I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead?
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#77. MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN'T SAVE - Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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#78. The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers." - Samuel Colt, 1852
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#79. I'm just trying to get back to normal life.
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#80. A G-SHOCK WATCH. THE BLACK WATCH and its rubber wristband
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#81. Show me now. Make it real. Don't just say some sappy shit when you're gone. Otherwise, it's a load of crap
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#82. But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.
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#83. You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.
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#84. After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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#85. I'm sure some of the things I went through pale in comparison to what some of the guys went through in World War II and other conflicts. On top of all the shit they went through in Vietnam, they had to come home to a country that spat on them.
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#86. spent a nervous night together. The next morning, the doctors performed a C-section. As they were working, they hit some kind of artery and splashed blood all over the place. I was deathly afraid for my
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#87. When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
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#88. Oh, they may be tough individuals, but it takes more than personal toughness to be good leaders. The methods and goals have to contribute to the toughness.
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#89. He got up in front of the room and started telling us that we were doing things all wrong. He told us we should be winning their hearts and minds instead of killing them.
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#90. Tell the military the end result you want, and you'll get it. But don't try and tell us how to do it. All those rules about when and under what circumstances an enemy combatant could be killed didn't just make our jobs harder, they put our lives in danger.
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#91. I don't care how much money you get," my dad used to tell me. "It's not worth it if you're not happy." That's the most valuable piece of advice he ever gave me: Do what you want in life. To this day I've tried to follow that philosophy.
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#92. There's definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn't my time yet.
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#93. Every night someone on the other side of the river would stand up and take a shot at us. We would dutifully call it in and ask for permission to return fire. The answer was always a very distinct, "NO!" Very loud and clear.
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#94. I don't shoot people with Korans. I'd like to, but I don't
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#95. I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.
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#96. No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.
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#97. The strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love.
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#98. But the essence of what was said is accurate.
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#99. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
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#100. But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.
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