Kyle Carpenter Quotes

Kyle Carpenter

Profession : Soldier

Birth : October 17, 1989

I love Instagram. I like taking pictures. I've always been into that ever since cellphones had that capability.

Kyle Carpenter

I feel people look up to me.

Kyle Carpenter

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

Kyle Carpenter

There were a lot of hard times, and having to have a team of people help me out of the bed, having to use a bedpan is a really tough thing to swallow. But looking back, I'm proud of my scars and what myself and my Marines went through in Marjah.

Kyle Carpenter

It's human nature for everyone to say 'what if,' but I try to snap out of it as quickly as I can because I'm never going to be able to go back and change what has happened.

Kyle Carpenter

I wanted to set the story straight and really let people know what it's like and what me and my Marines went through.

Kyle Carpenter

Scars can be a good story. I survived and I am proud of them. I didn't want it, obviously. The girls definitely like them.

Kyle Carpenter

I always tell people to appreciate the little things in life... Things like driving on a nice day with the windows down, and the fact that you can get a good education or you have a good job.

Kyle Carpenter

The best time of being a Marine was Afghanistan. There will never be a time when I'm sleeping in the dirt and I haven't showered in four months and I'm with 50 of the people that I'll be the closest with ever.

Kyle Carpenter

I guess you could say I got right with the man upstairs. I wanted to go to heaven.

Kyle Carpenter

I was first and foremost a fellow Gamecock and friend before a Medal of Honor recipient.

Kyle Carpenter

There are always fellow Marines who understand and know what you're going through. Be proud, don't be ashamed, and go out there and tackle the second life you've been given.

Kyle Carpenter

I'm still here and kicking and, you know, I have all my limbs so you'll never hear me complain.

Kyle Carpenter

People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.

Kyle Carpenter

Going from toting a machine gun in Afghanistan... to using a bed pan, and I can't even put my own socks on - that was hard to kind of suck it up.

Kyle Carpenter

Early on in my recovery, the entire United States seemed to be supportive. Letters flooded in from all over the place, so from the second I woke up in the hospital, I've always had a great team and great people.

Kyle Carpenter

The Taliban are terrible shots. At the end of some long patrols, we'd be walking through the fields and get shot at - and we'd just keep walking.

Kyle Carpenter

I was big into football in college.

Kyle Carpenter

The blast blew most of my teeth out, I have screws and plates in my face, I lost the eye.

Kyle Carpenter

All of this blue on my face is from the gunpowder residue from the grenade. It blasted it into my face and stained the skin.

Kyle Carpenter