But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.
CHRIS KYLEIn 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.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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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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I am not a fan of politics.
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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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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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I did want to be the top sniper.
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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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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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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq.
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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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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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.
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It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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