Navy Seals Quotes

“Trying to drown me woman?"
'You can't drown a SEAL,' she said. 'How embarrassing would that be?'
'God yes. Shoot me, hang me, let me die of infection from a hangnail, but don't let me die in the water. They'd send me to hell on principle.”
― Maya Banks, The Darkest Hour

“Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma”
― P.T. Macias, Hot & Spicy

“There are scores of people who have never recovered, or been recovered, from an FSB interrogation.

They’re a hard organization to describe because nothing like the FSB exists in the USA. To get even remotely close, you’d have to ask the CIA to birth a seven-headed hydra with the faces of the FBI, DEA, NSA, Immigration, Border Patrol, Coast Guard, and the Navy Seals with a hangover and a grudge.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
― Eric Greitens, The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL

“If I die, I want to die for something I believe in and take my word for it, there isn’t much out there. But you, Rachel, you’re worth dying for.”
- Tristan Jacobs”
― Joni Hahn, Agent I1: Tristan

“What did he call them? Lupus garous? Fancy name for a horror-flick creature.”
― Terry Spear, SEAL Wolf In Too Deep

“I need me some wolf loving.”
― Terry Spear, SEAL Wolf In Too Deep

“We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"

--Opening to "My Father's Son," attributed to George Orwell”
― George Orwell

“He groaned a little and pulled his mouth free, pressing it against her forehead, then her cheeks.
"I was going to start a fire ---"
He smiled down at her. "You did.”
― Terry Spear, SEAL Wolf In Too Deep

“20% of the population can actually do three simple things.”
― Thom Shea, Three Simple Things: Leading During Chaos

“We're trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the missions, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes that we're the one who needs to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.”
― Marcus Luttrell, Service: A Navy SEAL at War

“The worse things get, the more you know you can count on men like that to always have your back. If you really want to know if someone is a true friend, get yourself into a tight spot with him or her, everyone has plenty of friends when things are good, but friendship is forged in moments of chaos.”
― Marcus Luttrell, Service: A Navy SEAL at War

“The SEALs represented an inherent contradiction. For all their specialized training and elite capabilities, many struggled with foundational, almost rudimentary, ethical actions: to not steal, to obey authority, to tell the truth. They were ill-equipped to confront failures and the accountability that came with them.”
― Matthew Cole, Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of Seal Team Six

“The SEALs represented an inherent contradiction. For all their specialized training and elite capabilities, many struggled with foundational, almost rudimentary, ethical actions: to not steal, to obey authority, to tell the truth. They were ill-equipped to confront failures and the accountability that came with them.”
― Matthew A. Cole, Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six

“In 2007, for example, a Gold Squadron sniper was pushed out of the unit after he killed three unarmed people—including a child—in at least two different operations. He was, nonetheless, allowed to return to the regular SEAL Teams.”
― Matthew A. Cole, Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six

“Remember, Osama had died multiple times before he was actually dead.
Before he was actually KILLED.”
― Osama assassination