Ed Kugler Quotes.

1. "You will rarely have things go the way you planned. Just remember you're objective and keep on moving in that direction. Make do with what resources you have and deliver the agreed upon result anyway. It will set you apart from most of the rest."
- Ed Kugler, Marine Sniper Wisdom

2. "Be tenacious."
- Ed Kugler, Marine Sniper Wisdom

3. "You're never as bad as you think you are and certainly never as good. Keep your head about you. Strive every single day to be better than yesterday and even better tomorrow. Don't get caught in the trap of thinking you are something special."
- Ed Kugler, Marine Sniper Wisdom

4. "You will have few really close, real, relationships in life. Nurture them, protect them and honor them at all times."
- Ed Kugler, Marine Sniper Wisdom

5. "I got over my wave of giving a shit and then regained my senses."
- Ed Kugler, Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

6. "I don’t know what the life force is and don’t have any use for religion. I do know that in the war business, the light you have grows a little weaker each time you deal in death."
- Ed Kugler, Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

7. "When the platoon got going, he’d act as the armorer. He offered us a choice of weapons. A Winchester Model 70, 30-06 was the basic weapon of choice."
- Ed Kugler, Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

8. "The engineers wanted us to be able to blow the booby traps we found so others wouldn’t get killed. Some guys really got off working with explosives. I mean, their eyes lit up, and they got all happy. It did weird things to people. It was interesting as hell to me, but I knew how dangerous that shit was."
- Ed Kugler, Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

9. "Stu was six feet four inches of pure badass. He was a great guy to have around when you needed to run through a wall or knock down a tree."
- Ed Kugler, Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

10. "a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It’s easy to make a decision when you don’t have to look the people in the eye who have to carry it out. And reminding people of that is my purpose with this book."
- Ed Kugler, Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War