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.
CHRIS KYLEOther 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.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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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’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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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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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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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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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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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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War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good; war sucks.
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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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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. Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations that stay with you forever.
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I am not a fan of politics.
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I did want to be the top sniper.
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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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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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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 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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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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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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I really don’t care what people think of me.
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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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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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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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