Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.
— Marcus Luttrell
My greatest honor was to serve my country.
Revenge is a powerful motivator.
I'm a big tradition guy. If you love this country and study history, then you will love Boston.
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.
If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind.
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.'
If you had to put people, senators - if they had to go for their V.A. to get care, it would probably get fixed.
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.
It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.
I knew, at a very young age, that I was supposed to be a gunfighter.
To the next generation, your war is here; you don't have to find it.
Who among you will love something more than you love yourself, all right?
Rick Perry is my family. I love him.
I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.
I could see hunks of metal and rocks sticking out of my legs.
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.
People make mistakes, and bad things happen.
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.
I love Boston.
I don't want to be in Hollywood or anything like that.
Every time I get off the phone with one of my friends, I tell them I love them.
We trained like we fight.
War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.
If we became buddies, obviously I'd start throwing some cracks at Him.
If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.
If you knew the real me, you'd want to keep your distance from me. Seriously.
I'm a private person.
We have to make sure the Hell the veterans come home from is not the Hell they come back to.
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.
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.
In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.
When I did get captured, the only thing I held onto was the fact that my teammates were going to come get me. Period.
I wasn't the best frogman out there.
One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.
Texas is generally 82 degrees year round. I always tell people you don't know cold until you have been to Boston.
When they were working on the movie 'Lone Survivor,' all I cared about was that it was done right to honor all of the guys.
I could care less whether the American public knows what I look like.
Don't waste one second on anything. Watch the sun come up, and watch it go down.
You play like you practice and practice how you play.
If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.
When I came into the Perry family, it was just kind of one of those deals where they were the only family I had.
These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lone wolf but an individual operator who's been convinced in their head, brainwashed, whatever, that this is the way to go. And they will carry out their assaults systematically throughout.
I'm not a hero.
I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
I challenge all of you to fight for this country.
The only way we're going to keep America safe is to have an elite military, all right.
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'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?
