Marcus Luttrell Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Marcus Luttrell:

Every time I get off the phone with one of my friends, I tell them I love them.

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

Marcus Luttrell

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

Marcus Luttrell

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

Marcus Luttrell

You play like you practice and practice how you play.

Marcus Luttrell

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.

Marcus Luttrell

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.

Marcus Luttrell

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

Marcus Luttrell

We trained like we fight.

Marcus Luttrell

People make mistakes, and bad things happen.

Marcus Luttrell

When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

Marcus Luttrell

If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.

Marcus Luttrell

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

Marcus Luttrell

To have people with - with psychological problems have a background check before they can buy a weapon? I don't think the NRA would pull me off that one. If they do, then I need to be pulled off it because... you can't give a weapon to someone who has mental issues, right.

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.

Marcus Luttrell

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.

Marcus Luttrell

Revenge is a powerful motivator.

Marcus Luttrell

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.'

Marcus Luttrell

Every time I get off the phone with one of my friends, I tell them I love them.

Marcus Luttrell

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

Marcus Luttrell

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

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.

Marcus Luttrell

The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room ... watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I'm gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.

Marcus Luttrell

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.

Marcus Luttrell

I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.

Marcus Luttrell

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.

Marcus Luttrell