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“TO TOP THINGS OFF, THE IRAQIS HAD SENT SOME SCUDS OVER just before the war started. Most had been taken care of by Patriot missiles, but one got through. Wouldn’t you know it took out the Starbucks where we’d hung out during our prewar training? That’s low, hitting a coffee place. It could have been worse, I guess. It could have been a Dunkin’ Donuts. The joke was that President Bush only declared war when the 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.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper
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“I’d like us to remember the suffering of those Americans who were injured serving this country before we dole out millions to slackers and moochers. Look at the homeless: a lot are vets. I think we owe them more than just our gratitude. They were willing to sign a blank check for America, with the cost right up to their life.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“I was tempted to get up and run over to the bell that would end my torture—if you ring this bell, you’re taken in for coffee and a doughnut.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“plastic bottle of water. One of the Marines pulled his ruck over and used it as a pillow, catching some sleep. Another went downstairs, to the store on the first story of the building. It was a smoke shop; he returned with cartons of flavored cigarettes. He lit a few, and a cherry scent mingled with the heavy stench that always hung over Iraq, a smell of sewage and sweat and death.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“SAY I PREFERRED FREEFALL TO STATIC JUMPING. I’M not saying I enjoyed it, just that I liked it a lot better. Kind of like picking the firing squad over being hanged.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“You need skill to be a sniper, but you also need opportunity. And luck.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“how much better America looks when you’ve been gone from it for a while.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“Medals never tell the whole story. And like I said, in the end they’ve become more political than accurate.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“was too senior to do the bullshit jobs and too junior to do the political jobs. I was just right.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“Part of it is personal. It’s the same way for athletes: an athlete wants to be in a big game, wants to compete on the field or in the ring. But another part, a bigger part I think, is patriotism. It’s the sort of thing that if it has to be explained, you’re not going to understand. But maybe this will help: One night a little later on, we were in an exhausting firefight. Ten of us spent roughly forty-eight hours in the second story of an old, abandoned brick building, fighting in hundred-degree-plus heat wearing full armor. Bullets flew in, demolishing the walls around us practically nonstop. The only break we took was to reload. Finally, as the sun came up in the morning, the sound of gunfire and bullets hitting brick stopped. The fight was over. It became eerily quiet. When the Marines came in to relieve us, they found every man in the room either slumped against a wall or collapsed on the floor, dressing wounds or just soaking in the situation. One of the Marines outside took an American flag and hoisted it over the position. Someone else played the National Anthem—I have no idea where the music came from, but the symbolism and the way it spoke to the soul was overwhelming; it remains one of my most powerful memories.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“Rank is a funny concept in the Teams. It’s not disrespected exactly, but it’s clearly not the full measure of the man.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
tags: rank-hazing-respect
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“BEACH BALLS AND LONG SHOTS I WAS WATCHING FROM THE ROOF ONE AFTERNOON WHEN A group of roughly sixteen fully armed insurgents emerged from cover. They were wearing full body armor and were heavily geared. (We found out later that they were Tunisians, apparently recruited by one of the militant groups to fight against Americans in Iraq.) Not unusual at all, except for the fact that they were also carrying four very large and colorful beach balls. I couldn’t really believe what I was seeing—they split up into groups and got into the water, four men per beach ball. Then, using the beach balls to keep them afloat, they began paddling across. It was my job not to let that happen, but that didn’t necessarily mean I had to shoot each one of them. Hell, I had to conserve ammo for future engagements. I shot the first beach ball. The four men began flailing for the other three balls. Snap. I shot beach ball number two. It was kind of fun.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“My country sent me out there so that bullshit wouldn’t make its way back to our shores.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“was deathly afraid for my wife. I felt real fear. Worse.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“Helping each other out, that's America.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
tags: america
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“I don't know how high I went, I don't wanna know. Heights are not my favorite thing. It makes my balls go in my throat just thinking about it.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
tags: fears, funny, heights
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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.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“The number is not important to me. I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives. Everyone I shot in Iraq was trying to harm Americans or Iraqis loyal to the new government.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers.” —Samuel Colt, 1852”
― Chris Kyle, American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms
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“They were driven by more than just religion and adrenaline, even more than blood lust. They were already halfway to Paradise, in their minds at least.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“When I think about the patriotism that drives SEALs, I am reminded of Ryan recovering in a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. There he was, freshly wounded, almost fatally, and blind for life. Many reconstructive surgeries to his face loomed ahead. You know what he asked for? He asked for someone to wheel him to a flag and give him some time. He sat in his wheelchair for close to a half-hour saluting as the American flag whipped in the wind. That’s Ryan: a true patriot. A genuine warrior, with a heart of gold. Of course we all gave him shit and told him somebody probably wheeled him in front of a Dumpster and just told him it was a flag. Being Ryan, he dished out as many blind jokes as he took and had us all rolling every time we talked.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“We are, in many ways, opposites. Still, we seemed to click. One day on the phone he was asking what I thought made us compatible. I decided to tell him some of the things that drew me to him. “I think you’re a really good guy,” I told him, “really nice. And sensitive.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“it takes more than personal toughness to be good leaders.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“No SEAL has ever actually admitted feeling pain since the beginning of Creation.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“Show me now. Make it real. Don't just say some sappy shit when you're gone. Otherwise, it's a load of crap.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“Meanwhile, the brass got huge promotions and congratulations for their part in the war. They got the glory. Bullshit glory. Bullshit glory for a war they didn’t fight and the cowardly stance they took. Their cowardice ended lives we could have saved if they would have let us do our jobs.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“Isn’t religion supposed to teach tolerance?”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“I guess it may not make any sense to anyone else, but I felt this strange mixture of feelings, all across the spectrum. I was so mad at him for leaving the kids and me on our own. I wanted him home but I was mad, too. I was coming off months of anxiety for his safety and frustration that he chose to keep going back. I wanted to count on him, but I couldn’t. His Team could, and total strangers who happened to be in the military could, but the kids and I certainly could not. It wasn’t his fault. He would have been in two places at once if he could have been, but he couldn’t. But when he had to choose, he didn’t choose us. All the while, I loved him and I tried to support him and show him love in every way possible. I felt five hundred emotions, all at the same time.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled. Maybe the reason is that the writing on the barrels showed that the chemicals came from France and Germany, our supposed Western allies. The thing I always wonder about is how much Saddam was able to hide before we actually invaded. We’d given so much warning before we came in, that he surely had time to move and bury tons of material. Where it went, where it will turn up, what it will poison—I think those are pretty good questions that have never been answered.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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“The Navy did not promise that I would be a SEAL; I had to earn that privilege. What they did guarantee, though, was that I would have a chance to try out. As far as I was concerned, that was good enough, because there was no way that I was going to fail.”
― Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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