“Thank you for saving my life.” “It’s what my dad would have done.”
“Please don’t tell me we lost an engine.” “Alright, I won’t tell you that.”
“You don’t go after them if I wasn’t here.” “But you are here.” “Come on Mav. Don’t think, just do!”
“It’s not the plane, it’s the pilot.”
“Just wave and smile.”
“Listen, just be cool.”
“No sir, he’s supersonic.”
“How are we going to get this museum piece in the air?”
“Let’s start running.” “Yeah, running.”
“Well, it’s good to see you.” “It’s good to see you, too.”
“You told me not to think!”
“No turning back now.”
“It’s been an honor, Captain.”
“We’ll talk when we get back.”
“You give ‘em hell.”
“This is what you’ve all been training for. Come home safe.”
“And your wingman?” “Rooster.”
“You’re where you belong. Make us proud.”
“My dad believed in you. I’m not going to make the same mistake.”
“I think the admiral is asking a rhetorical question.”
“Pete if you lost your wingman up there you wouldn’t give up. You’d keep fighting. Those are your pilots.”
“This is coffin corner.”
“You’ll have to find a way back on your own.”
“Fighting with everything you have just to keep yourself from blacking out.”
“Just don’t break her heart again.”
“This is the last time I go out your window.” “We’ll see” “No, I mean it, I’ll never leave you again.”
“I was trying to be the father that he lost.”
“If I send him on this mission he might never come home. If I don’t send him he will never forgive me.”
“I was trying to be the father he lost, I wish I would have done it better.”
“He will always resent me for what I did. Why should he resent her too?
“One last thing, whos the better pilot? You or me?” “It was a nice moment, lets not ruin it.”
“The Navy needs Maverick. The kid needs Maverick. That’s why I fought for you.”
“Naval aviator is not what I am. It’s who I am.”
“Captain? Still?”
“If you get kicked out, you leave us with hangman.”
“It’s not what I am, it’s who I am. How do I teach that?”
“I’m not a teacher. I’m a fighter pilot.”