Explore Quotes by Marcus Luttrell

It's not secret that usually I don't have a filter.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Revenge is a powerful motivator.

Don't waste one second on anything. Watch the sun come up, and watch it go down.

I'd give Him some room. I'd be like, 'Thanks for keeping me around a little bit longer. I owe You a lot.'

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.

I'm not a hero.

I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.

Rick Perry is my family. I love him.

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?

When I did get captured, the only thing I held onto was the fact that my teammates were going to come get me. Period.

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.

I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

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.

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.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

I knew, at a very young age, that I was supposed to be a gunfighter.

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