Quotes by 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.

One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Despite what your momma told you, Violence does solve problems.

The rules are drawn up by lawyers who are trying to protect the admirals and generals from the politicians; they're not written by people who are worried about the guys on the ground getting shot.

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.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.

But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It's no big deal.

There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

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.

If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they're male, shoot 'em. Kill every male you see.

I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.

I did want to be the top sniper.

I just want to get the bad guys but if I can't see them, I can't shoot them.

I'm willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Decades of Saddam's rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Whether they're used in war or for keeping the peace, guns are just tools. And like any tool, the way they're used reflects the society they're part of. As times change, guns have evolved. If you don't like guns, blame it on the society they're part of.

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?

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.

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

The media cause more problems than they do good.

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.

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.

I really don't care what people think of me.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I am not a fan of politics.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.