Marcus Luttrell Quotes

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

What they really do during boot camp above all else is they create conditions of extreme stress - whether through sleep deprivation or the cold and muddy weather or just noise or whatever it is - and you have to make decisions, not just for yourself, but for the Marines you're supposed to be leading at any given moment.

From wrestling, I learned that I was capable of much more than I thought I was.

The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.

To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

I have the strength to endure it all.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

Have a strong mind and a soft heart.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Working out is my way of saying to cancer, 'You're trying to invade my body; you're trying to take me away from my daughters, but I'm stronger than you. And I'm going to hit harder than you.'

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline.

There's nothing like being a soldier for confidence or learning your limits or enduring utter humiliation.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.