Marcus Luttrell

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“People make mistakes, and bad things happen.”

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

“I'm not a hero.”

“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.”

“When I came into the Perry family, it was just kind of one of those deals where they were the only family I had.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“You play like you practice and practice how you play.”

“If you knew the real me, you'd want to keep your distance from me. Seriously.”

“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.”

“Danny Dietz died right there in my arms. I don't know how quickly hearts break, but that nearly broke mine... I had to leave him or else die out here with him. But I knew one thing was certain. I still had my rifle and I was not alone, and neither was Danny, a devout Roman Catholic. I left him with God.”

“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.”

“I don't want to be in Hollywood or anything like that.”