The new Iraqi army had a camp nearby. Those idiots took it in their head to send a few shots our way as well. Every day. We hung a VF panel over our position – an indicator showing we were friendly – and the shots kept coming. We radioed their command. The shots kept coming. We called back and cussed out their command. The shots kept coming. We tried everything to get them to stop, short of calling in a bomb strike.

— Chris Kyle

Chris Kyle Quotes

The Navy disqualified me when my physical revealed that I had pins in my arm from the rodeo accident. I tried arguing, I tried pleading; nothing worked. I even offered to sign a waiver saying that I’d never make the Navy responsible for anything that happened to my arm. They flat-out turned me down. And that, I concluded, was the end of my military career.

— Chris Kyle

No SEAL has ever actually admitted feeling pain since the beginning of Creation.

— Chris Kyle

I was raised with, and still believe in, the Christian faith. If I had to order my priorities, they would be God, Country, Family. There might be some debate on where those last two fall – these days I’ve come around to believing that Family may, under some circumstances, outrank Country. But it’s a close race.

— Chris Kyle

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

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

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

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

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

I’d put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead?

— Chris Kyle

Helping each other out, that’s America.

— Chris Kyle

I signed up to protect this country. I do not choose the wars. It happens that I love to fight. But I do not choose which battles I go to. Y’all send me to them.

— Chris Kyle

States HarperCollins Publishers.

— Chris Kyle

Isn’t religion supposed to teach tolerance?

— Chris Kyle

Medals never tell the whole story. And like I said, in the end they’ve become more political than accurate.

— Chris Kyle

As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy.

— Chris Kyle

It’s true that it can be difficult to sort out civilians from insurgents in certain situations, but here the bad guys made it easy for us.

— Chris Kyle

My guys were going back to war and I was flying home. That sucked. I felt like I was letting them down, shirking my duty. It was a conflict – family and country, family and brothers in arms – that I never really resolved.

— Chris Kyle

You need skill to be a sniper, but you also need opportunity. And luck.

— Chris Kyle

Please don’t tell my momma I died in pain, he muttered... He died right then. He didn’t even live long enough to hear my lies about how everything was going to be okay.

— Chris Kyle

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
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