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.
CHRIS KYLEPeople 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.
More Chris Kyle Quotes
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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 don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.
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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 thought I should be stronger than was possible.
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I am not a fan of politics.
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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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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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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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It is our duty to serve those who serve us.
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I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.
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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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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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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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None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.
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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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