Jack Coughlin > Quotes

“While speed was important, doing it right was more important.”
― Jack Coughlin, Kill Zone

“Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.”
― Jack Coughlin

“Legend says Gabriel’s trumpet will sound the last judgment. I do the same sort of thing with my rifle.”
― Jack Coughlin, Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

“This was the problem with making important decisions by committee and trying to run a war of ideals with men and women whose vision was so limited by money.”
― Jack Coughlin, On Scope

“be cleared.”
― Jack Coughlin, An Act of Treason

“want any of you jarheads to screw this up.”
― Jack Coughlin, Kill Zone

“You don’t have to like it; you just have to do it.”
― Jack Coughlin, Running the Maze

“Nothing wrong with the world that a juicy steak couldn’t cure.”
― Jack Coughlin, On Scope

“I made a mental note to buy stock in the Iraqi padlock company.”
― Jack Coughlin, Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

“I was shown, not told, the workingman’s belief in hard labor,”
― Jack Coughlin, Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

“inches tall, the length of his head is ten inches, he is twenty inches across the shoulder, and neck to belly button is a dozen inches. Those details, part of any sniper’s memorized table of algorithms, help determine how best to kill a target. This evening, I was writing”
― Jack Coughlin, Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper

“Smith. Jones. Who the fuck cares? It’s not your real name anyway.”
― Jack Coughlin, Kill Zone