Kyle Carpenter

My college experience was like everyone else's. I learned a lot. I gained a new perspective on the world and on people…

— Kyle Carpenter

The Bush family truly cares about our military.

— Kyle Carpenter

In the Marine Corps there is no individual effort, we're all a big team.

— 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…

— Kyle Carpenter

I jumped on the grenade that was thrown at myself and my friend. I don't recommend it.

— Kyle Carpenter

Work hard at what you do, no matter what it is. Go out there and find your passion and make a difference.

— Kyle Carpenter

There were a lot of hard times, and having to have a team of people help me out of the bed, having…

— Kyle Carpenter

As far as me being inspirational to other combat-wounded guys, I would say that it's the opposite. To see guys at Walter…

— 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

Going from toting a machine gun in Afghanistan... to using a bed pan, and I can't even put my own socks on…

— Kyle Carpenter

As Marines, it's drilled into us... to take care of fellow Marines.

— Kyle Carpenter

I would take any opportunity to tell service members, 'Thank you.'

— Kyle Carpenter

The hardest part of my entire three-year recovery has been knowing that my parents, my brothers, were suffering through this burden of…

— Kyle Carpenter

I graduated from college December of 2017 and looking ahead and thinking about potentially starting a book, I just kept getting hung…

— 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…

— Kyle Carpenter

I remember my buddies yelling at me, and it sounded like they were a football field away, and I remember them yelling,…

— Kyle Carpenter

I wasn't gonna make it. I had come to terms that I was gonna die, and I was very sure of that.

— 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…

— Kyle Carpenter

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

— Kyle Carpenter

I'm very pleased with how far I've come, and I see my injuries and my scars and all my buddies and everybody…

— Kyle Carpenter

Just because I'm in the spotlight - I'm actually no better than anyone else. Everyone has hard days and tough times.

— Kyle Carpenter

We have this one body we've been given, so whether you run, kayak, swim, bike, on some basic level, we need to…

— Kyle Carpenter

I was injured by an enemy hand grenade in Afghanistan in 2010. I spent three years recovering at Walter Reed National Military…

— 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…

— Kyle Carpenter

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

— Kyle Carpenter