Top 100 Chris Kyle Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m just trying to get back to normal life.”

— Chris Kyle

2. “I don’t know if I’m the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn’t be.”

— Chris Kyle

3. “I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.”

— Chris Kyle

4. “Im not a redneck, Im from Texas.”

— Chris Kyle

5. “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

6. “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.”

— Chris Kyle

7. “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

8. “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.”

— Chris Kyle

9. “I’ve lived the literal meaning of the ‘land of the free’ and ‘home of the brave.’ It’s not corny for me. I feel it in my heart. I feel it in my chest. Even at a ball game, when someone talks during the anthem or doesn’t take off his hat, it pisses me off. I’m not one to be quiet about it, either.”

— Chris Kyle

10. “It is our duty to serve those who serve us.”

— Chris Kyle

11. “I really don’t care what people think of me.”

— Chris Kyle

12. “The media cause more problems than they do good.”

— Chris Kyle

13. “I did want to be the top sniper.”

— Chris Kyle

14. “Just because war is hell doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “I don’t shoot people with Korans. I’d like to, but I don’t.”

— Chris Kyle

17. “It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.”

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18. “Great way to fight a war – be prepared to defend yourself for winning.”

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

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20. “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

21. “There will always be good. There will always be evil. There comes a time when honest debate, serious diplomatic efforts, and logical arguments have been exhausted and only men and women willing to take up arms against evil will suffice to save the freedom of a nation or a continent. What.”

— Chris Kyle

22. “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.”

— Chris Kyle

23. “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.”

— Chris Kyle

24. “I am not a fan of politics.”

— Chris Kyle

25. “It’s funny – sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can’t really be there for the people they love. I’ve felt it myself.”

— Chris Kyle

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

— Chris Kyle

27. “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

28. “Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.”

— Chris Kyle

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29. “I thought I should be stronger than was possible.”

— Chris Kyle

30. “I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.”

— Chris Kyle

31. “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.”

— Chris Kyle

32. “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.”

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33. “I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job. But I truly, deeply hated the evil that woman possessed. I hate it to this day.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “I loved killing bad guys.”

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36. “Isn’t religion supposed to teach tolerance?”

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

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38. “Helping each other out, that’s America.”

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39. “The number is not important to me. I only wish I had killed more. Not for bragging rights, but because I believe the world is a better place without savages out there taking American lives. Everyone I shot in Iraq was trying to harm Americans or Iraqis loyal to the new government.”

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

— Chris Kyle

41. “None of my problems come from the people I’ve killed.”

— Chris Kyle

42. “It was a tragic end to a heroic life.”

— Chris Kyle

43. “The thing we all had in common wasn’t muscle; it was the will to do whatever it takes.”

— Chris Kyle

44. “I don’t care how much money you get,” my dad used to tell me. “It’s not worth it if you’re not happy.”

— Chris Kyle

45. “I don’t care how much money you get,” my dad used to tell me. “It’s not worth it if you’re not happy.” That’s the most valuable piece of advice he ever gave me: Do what you want in life. To this day I’ve tried to follow that philosophy.”

— Chris Kyle

46. “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

47. “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.”

— Chris Kyle

48. “The moon, Earth, and stars aligned. God blew on the bullet, and I gut-shot the jackass.”

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49. “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

50. “Why a ball cap? Ninety percent of being cool is looking cool. And you look so much cooler wearing a ball cap.”

— Chris Kyle