Walk in My Combat Boots Quotes

“life will deceive us with relative predictability for long periods until, at the moments when we begin to feel the most comfortable, it unfolds, reminding us how powerless we all are.”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

“Ninety percent of people want the direction of their life to change, but they forget they’re the ones driving the car. You have to turn the wheel.”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

“When it comes to war, if you’re going to pick up a gun, you cannot have an imbalance of commitment. You have to be ready to go, ready to fight, and ready to die.”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

“We start talking about current events. I ask him, “What’s the story about weapons of mass destruction?” “I wanted them.” “Did you get them?” “No.” “So why did you kind of lead everybody on that you had weapons of mass destruction?”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

“What I was able to share with people was how I learned that we all need to serve something bigger than ourselves. And if we want to inspire, we need to make ourselves small, not large. Like mothers, for example. Moms can be exhausted and hungry, even injured, but they’re wiping our butts throughout the night. Her success, though, is also our success. If we can all be servant leaders, then our teams will thrive and prevail.”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

“the numbers of service members we’ve lost to suicide is far greater than the number of service members killed by the enemy.”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

“They can’t comprehend what it means to live a life in the service of others.”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

“The first battle in Fallujah happens three months later, in April. Some Blackwater guys riding in an up-armored Chevy Suburban stop on a road by the bridge at the entrance to the gates of Fallujah when they’re approached by a group of kids selling gum, candy, soda, and fake Rolexes. A guy rolls down the window to buy some candy, and a kid drops a frag grenade into the Suburban. The burned, charred bodies of four Americans are dragged from the wreckage and strung up by the bridge. The insurgents declare an all-out war against the Americans in Iraq.”
― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

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― James Patterson, Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors