Quotes from Marcus Luttrell

we train for war and fight to win.

My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.

I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.

What comes through my head is going to come out of my mouth.

To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.

It's ignorance, and it's upsetting. Look at the young; they have no idea how great this country is because they never have been outside of it.

I could see hunks of metal and rocks sticking out of my legs.

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.

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.

I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.

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.

We have to make sure the Hell the veterans come home from is not the Hell they come back to.

If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.

The only way we're going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.

One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.

I'd been in so many villages. I'd be like, 'Up against the wall, and shut the hell up!' So I'm like, why would these people be kind to me?

Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

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 teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

I will never quit. I persevere and thrive on adversity. 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 teammates and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

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....

we train for war and fight to win.

You always have to strive

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.