Top 100 Quotes About Chris Kyle
#1. Marine, eager but tempered by the fight
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#2. In the end, my story, in Iraq and afterward, is about more than just killing people or even fighting for my country. It's about being a man. And it's about love as well as hate.
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#3. I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.
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#4. 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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#5. The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.
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#6. 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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#7. Get it. I, of course, had to stay in my push-up
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#8. 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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#9. Please don't tell my momma I died in pain, he muttered ... He died right then. He didn't even live long enough to hear my lies about how everything was going to be okay
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#10. Helping each other out, that's America.
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#11. I'd like us to remember the suffering of those Americans who were injured serving this country before we dole out millions to slackers and moochers.
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#12. 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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#14. I'm willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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#15. I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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#16. No SEAL has ever actually admitted feeling pain since the beginning of Creation.
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#17. I just want to get the bad guys but if I can't see them, I can't shoot them.
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#18. It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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#19. I didn't focus on death, or spend much time thinking about it. It was more like an idea, lurking in the distance.
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#20. 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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#21. Despite what your momma told ya, violence does solve problems.
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#22. I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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#23. Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.
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#24. The generosity, to me it's less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.
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#25. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It's no big deal.
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#30. Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.
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#32. 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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#33. Someone once asked me if I had a favorite distance. My answer was easy: the closer the better.
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#34. three guys with RPGs taking aim at us
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#35. 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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#36. All the time, I was thinking: "This isn't too hard."
And: "I'm going to get attacked any second.
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#37. You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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#38. 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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#39. I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
Taya Kyle
#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. In my experience, Marines are gung ho no matter what. They will all fight to the death. Everyone of them just wants to get out there and kill. They are bad-ass, hard-charging mothers.
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#43. I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.
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#44. Love John Wayne. I love his cowboy movies especially, which makes sense I guess. Rio Bravo may be my favorite.
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. coming from the Iraqis, who were trying
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. I think I've been inspired by Chris and his ability to be raw and genuine and admit flaws and let it be whatever it is. That's something I'm trying to do, too, is just be real ... That way ends up being very healing with people.
Taya Kyle
#51. 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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#52. WHEN YOU'RE IN A PROFESSION WHERE YOUR JOB IS TO KILL people, you start getting creative about doing it.
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#53. It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.
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#54. 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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#55. The media cause more problems than they do good.
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#56. None of my problems come from the people I've killed.
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#57. You forget how beautiful life is, if you don't get a chance to see things like that.
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#58. 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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#59. Make that peace or war, marriage was our next step together. Happily, we've survived it all.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. Great way to fight a war - be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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#72. 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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#73. Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems,
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#74. Just because war is hell doesn't mean you can't have a little fun.
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#75. I hated running, but I was beginning to develop the right mind-set: Do whatever it takes. THIS
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#76. 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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#77. I was coming off months of anxiety for his safety and frustration that he chose to keep going back. I wanted to count on him, but I couldn't. His Team could, and total strangers who happened to be in the military could, but the kids and I certainly could not.
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#78. There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless or jobless.
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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. Maybe war isn't really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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#82. 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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#83. I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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#84. 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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#85. Marines - you beat them down and they come back for more.
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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. If he thought investing his time could help a person, he did it. That to me is what a hero is all about. To me, that's as big a hero as you can be.
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#89. It was a tragic end to a heroic life.
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#90. I've lived the literal meaning of the "land of the free" and "home of the brave." It's not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn't take off his hat, it pisses me off. I'm not one to be quiet about it, either.
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#91. It was always a delicate balance, life and death, comedy and tragedy.
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#94. They naturally thought that anyone who was good should have a very high rank.
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#95. was too senior to do the bullshit jobs and too junior to do the political jobs. I was just right.
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#96. 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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#97. The thing we all had in common wasn't muscle; it was the will to do whatever it takes.
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#98. 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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#99. Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.
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#100. War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good ... war sucks.
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