Quotes by Marcus Luttrell - Page 2

Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man and to be a good husband. Not only does he have to take care of his own family, but the state of Texas.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Good Husband
Take Care
Family Good Man
Governor
Perry
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In real life, it's war, and war's not entertainment. War is 'old men lying and young men dying' kind of deal. That's a saying; I didn't make that up.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Dying
Lying
Real Life
Life War Men
Old Men
Young Men
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When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Doors
Messing
Opens
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I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Family
God
Happy
Another Day
Enjoy
Enjoy Life
My Time
Sun
Thank God
Watches
Life Time Family
Life Time God
Life God Family
Come
Be Happy
Life God Time
Day
Down
Watch
Spend
Just Be
Ranch
Thank
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Bottom line is that there's bad people everywhere. And every now and again, we are going to have to step to them to make sure that we preserve our way of life.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Bad People
Bottom
Bottom Line
Everywhere
Now
Sure
Again
Life Step People
Bad
Life Bad People
Line
Preserve
Step
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This entire business of modern war crimes, as identified by the liberal wings of politics and the media, began in Iraq and has been running downhill ever since.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Modern War
Wings
Crimes
Downhill
Identified
Liberal
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If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Being Afraid
Fearful
Okay
Shut
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Obviously, the World War II guys, that's where we, we learned everything from those guys. And then we hopefully, what we learned, we pass down to the newer generation.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
World War Ii
War World Generation
World War
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We all have our crosses to bear. We carry them heavily, out of love for our brothers in arms. But sometimes you have to let go of the idea that anyone down here is in control.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Brother
Ideas
Letting Go
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To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Navy
Training
Way
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America is the light, and her people are the goodness that grows from that. She'll always be worth fighting for - it was my greatest honor to fight for her every day of my adult life.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
America
Fighting
Goodness
Honor
Light
Adult
Life Always Light
Adult Life
Greatest
Fight
Every Day
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Don't let your thoughts run away with you, don't start planning to bail out because you're worried about the future and how much you can take. Don't look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Running
Bail
Pain
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And if the liberal media and political community cannot accept that sometimes the wrong people get killed in war, then I can only suggest they first grow up and then serve a short stint up in the Hindu Kush.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
War
Growing Up
Media
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When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Deals
Father Figure
Good Man
Family Good Man
Cared
Genuinely
Governor
Perry
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The real battle is won in the mind. It's won by guys who understand their areas of weakness, who sit and think about it, plotting and planning to improve. Attending to the detail. Work on their weaknesses and overcome them. Because they can.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Guy
Real
Thinking
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There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Friends
Home
War
Arms
Glorious
Months
Die
Family Home Your
War Family Home
Away
Leave
Having
Holding
Watching
While
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People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Bicycle
Cyclists
Gun
Pilots
Real Life
Affects
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Most of the time, I don't want to use anti-climatic, but sometimes you go out there thinking this is going to be the worst thing you've ever gotten yourself into, and then you get back to base and think, 'Wow, that wasn't anything like I expected.'
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Expected
Base
Time Thinking Yourself
Worst Thing
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In my opinion, you start messing with what this country was founded on, and our baseline is what we call it, it opens up too many - too many doors. You start messing with that, people can say religion kills people. So, let's start messing with that.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Doors
In My Opinion
Messing
Opens
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..Washington, where the human rights of terrorists are often given high priority. And I am certain liberal politicians would defend their position to the death. Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Politician
Priorities
Rights
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I got my service dog when I was medically retired out of the military, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I wish every medically retired serviceman could have a service dog. He's amazing. He's my best bud. I go everywhere and anywhere with him.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Amazing
Bud
Military
Retired
Wish
Everywhere
Best Amazing Me
Anywhere
Medically
Service
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To have people with - with psychological problems have a background check before they can buy a weapon? I don't think the NRA would pull me off that one. If they do, then I need to be pulled off it because... you can't give a weapon to someone who has mental issues, right.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Nra
Psychological
Check
Me Problems People
Weapon
Pull
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It's not a straight line to do anything breaking the law. Because if it is, basically you're saying if I cop to having PTSD, I can go out and slap somebody around all I want, and when the cops show up, I can claim I am a veteran, and I got PTSD - that's not how that works.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Cop
Slap
Veteran
Breaking
Claim
Straight Line
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These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lone wolf but an individual operator who's been convinced in their head, brainwashed, whatever, that this is the way to go. And they will carry out their assaults systematically throughout.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Brainwashed
Lone
Lone Wolf
Look People Will
Look People Way
Operator
Systematically
Wolf
Wolves
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...these are the problems of the modern U.S. combat soldier, the constant worry about overstepping the mark and an American media that delights in trying to knock us down. Which we have done nothing to deserve. Except, perhaps, love our country and everything it stands for.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Country
Media
Perhaps Love
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The first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should somehow be charged with murder for shooting our enemy.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Bullying
Country
Media
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I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Enemy
Fighting
Military
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I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Arrested
Breakfast
Ill
Insurgent
Promise
Announce
Ropes
Stray
Tortured
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With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
War
Military
Mistake
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The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Aids
Equipment
Fixing
Last Time
Surgery
Watching Television
Procedure
Va
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In times of uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call; a common man with uncommon desire to succeed. Forged by adversity, he stands alongside America’s finest special operations forces to serve his country and the American people, and to protect their way of life. I am that man.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Adversity
Country
Warrior
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We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
War
Mean
Skills
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You have to realize, in real life, the gun battle lasted for over three hours, and the movie's only two hours long. My hat's off to all those stuntmen who laid it on the line and hurt themselves doing what they had to do to get that done because in real life, we all died, and the only reason I'm sitting here is because of modern medicine.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Battle
Gun
Medicine
Real Life
Hat
Laid
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I died upon that mountain. There is no question. A part of me will forever be upon that mountain. Dead. That's my brothers died. If there's a part of me that live, because of my brothers. Because of them I am still alive, and I can never forget, that no matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall. You are never out of the fight.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Brother
Fall
Hurt
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We know about bad guys, what they do, and often, who they are. The politicians have chosen to send us into battle, and that's our trade. We do what's necessary. And in my view, once those politicians have elected to send us out to do what 99.9 percent of the country would be terrified to undertake, they should get the hell out of the way and stay there.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Country
Guy
Views
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The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground, and speed of thought. There's no prizes for gleaming a set of well-oiled muscles in Coronado. Bulk just makes you slow, especially in soft sand, and that's what we had to tackle every day of our lives, mile after mile.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Sand
Speed
Water
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In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Mom
Couple
Military
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Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Men
Book
Opposites
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Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what was necessary to save our own lives. Afraid of American civilian lawyers. I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: If you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Home
War
People
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I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.
Marcus Luttrell / Armed Force Officer
Christian
Giving Up
Lonely
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