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.
CHRIS KYLEI 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.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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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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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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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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Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq.
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I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.
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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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I just want to get the bad guys but if I can’t see them, I can’t shoot them.
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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 don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.
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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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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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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 thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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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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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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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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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 did want to be the top sniper.
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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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Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.
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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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After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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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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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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