Listen, son. You and I are professionals. If the manager says sacrifice, we lay down a bunt and let somebody else hit the homeruns....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boots Mulcahey: I'm not gonna make a speech. I just got something to say. Tomorrow our old pal, Doc, here's goin' out. He's bein' ...paid off after 30 years. I know most of you kids gotta long way to go before you find out what 30 years in the Navy means. It means service tough and good. It means serving your country in peace and in war. So let's raise our glasses. Radio announcer: We interrupt this program for an important announcement. This morning.... Boots Mulcahey: Aw, cut that thing off. So let's raise our glasses and drink with all the solemnity this occasion demands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man...'s game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dizzy: Say, don't you think about anything but flying? When did the bug first bite you? Tommy: You remember the day Lindy cam...e back from Paris?... I was only a kid, but I'll never forget it. They wrote "Welcome Home" with smoke across the sky and signed it QB.... I didn't even know what QB meant. Then someone told me about the quiet burglar. Old pilots joining together to help the flying game. I loved that. They seemed apart from ordinary people. Dizzy: Oh they were. That, that first QB hanger was a great place. Each pilot had his own drinking mug, and whenever one got bumped off, they put the mug on the shelf over the bar, bottom up, and your first drink was always a silent toast to the shelf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You men have proved that PT boats have some value in this war. Washington wants you back in the States to build them up. Those are... my orders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easie...r. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »