Marcus Luttrell
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.
Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?
To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.
I'm not a hero.
It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.
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.
When I came into the Perry family, it was just kind of one of those deals where they were the only family I had.
If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
I'd give Him some room. I'd be like, 'Thanks for keeping me around a little bit longer. I owe You a lot.'
If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.
If you had to put people, senators - if they had to go for their V.A. to get care, it would probably get fixed.
We trained like we fight.
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.'
Every time I get off the phone with one of my friends, I tell them I love them.
I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.
I don't want to be in Hollywood or anything like that.
When they were working on the movie 'Lone Survivor,' all I cared about was that it was done right to honor all of the guys.
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.Collection: Military
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.Collection: Real
There's a storm inside of us, a burning river, a drive. You push yourself further than anyone could think possible. You are never out of the fight.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Hurt
Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.Collection: Coward
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.Collection: Running
In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.Collection: Team
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.Collection: Military
Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.Collection: States
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.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Training
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Country
There is no other way to beat a terrorist. You must fight like him, or he will surely kill you.Collection: Fighting
There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.Collection: Team
Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.Collection: Knows
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.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: War
You always have to striveCollection: Strive
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.Collection: Water
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.Collection: War
You can't kill bad guys all day long because others will take their place.Collection: Long
We aren't heroes out there in the military. We're just Patriots.Collection: Military
we train for war and fight to win.Collection: War
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.Collection: Growing Up
With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely.Collection: Marine
...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.Collection: Country
..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.Collection: Rights
There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.Collection: Suicide