Chris Kyle Quotes

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.

- Chris Kyle

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.

- Chris Kyle

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

- Chris Kyle

I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

- Chris Kyle

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 Kyle

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 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 Kyle

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.

- Chris Kyle

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.

- Chris Kyle

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.

- Chris Kyle

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

- Chris Kyle

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.

- Chris Kyle

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

- Chris Kyle

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

- Chris Kyle

The media cause more problems than they do good.

- Chris Kyle

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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I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

- Chris Kyle

There's definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn't my time yet.

- Chris Kyle

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

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Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.

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But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep.

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Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

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When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

- Chris Kyle