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.
CHRIS KYLEBut 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.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.
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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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I thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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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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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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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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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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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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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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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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I’m just trying to get back to normal life.
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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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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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I am not a fan of politics.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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The media cause more problems than they do good.
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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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I did want to be the top sniper.
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