Maverick: Too close for missles, I'm switching to guns.
Cougar: God dammit, Mustang! This is Ghost Rider 117. This bogey is all over me. He's got missile lock on me. Do I have permission to fire?
Stinger: Do not fire until fired upon...
[first lines]
Flight Captain: Good morning, Scott.
Stinger: [to Maverick, with Goose to his right] Maverick, you just did an incredibly brave thing.
[Long pause]
Stinger: What you should have done was land your plane! You don't own that plane! The taxpayers do! Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash!
Goose: Great balls of fire!
Maverick: Jesus, this guy's good!
Maverick: I'll hit the brakes, he'll fly right by.
Goose: [after Goose and Maverick get chewed out by Viper] Thanks, Mav, that was really great. Oh, shit! Maybe I should become a truck driver. Mav, do you remember the number of that truck driving school that was on TV the other night, Truck America or something like that?
Viper: [discussing Maverick] Let me ask you something. If you had to go into battle, would you want him with you?
Jester: I don't know, I just don't know
Cougar: I'm gonna break high and right, see if he's really alone.
Viper: Maverick, I flew with his old man. Tell me one thing, if you had to go into battle would you want him with you?
Jester: I don't know, I just don't know.
Sundown: [Maverick suddenly flies off after refusing an easy shot on Jester] Hey, where the hell are you going?
Maverick: Uh... It's not good. It doesn't look good.
Sundown: What do you mean, "it doesn't look good"? It doesn't get to look any better than that.
Jester: His fitness report says it all. Flies by the seat of his pants. Completely unpredictable.
Viper: He got you, didn't he?
Jester: [pauses] Yeah.
Slider: [Iceman shoots down a MiG] Splash that sucker, yeah!
Viper: Damn, this kid is good!
Jester: Maverick, you and Goose get your butts outta that flight gear and up to Viper's office now.
Slider: Remember, boys, no points for second place.
Goose: You're a lot brighter than you look.
Slider: Oh, you shut up.
Wolfman: [watches Maverick leave the locker room and is talking on the phone] Hey, it's Wolfman. Yeah, Maverick just quit.
Viper: [after the dogfight with Viper] Okay, knock it off, gentlemen. Let's go home, Viper has the lead.
[Jester and Viper watch a frustrated Maverick walk off after having a falling out with Sundown]
Jester: He can't get back in the saddle, won't engage.
Viper: It's only been a few days.
Jester: You know, he just might not make it back.
Viper: Keep sending him up.
