Colonel Graff Quotes in Ender's Game (2013)

Colonel Graff: You have a habit of upsetting your commander.

Ender Wiggin: I find it hard to respect someone just because they outrank me, sir.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.

Ender Wiggin: No. The *way* we win matters.

Colonel Graff: Tell me why you kept on kicking him. You had already won.

Ender Wiggin: Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

Ender Wiggin: Sir, you made them hate me

Colonel Graff: I told them you were the best, we need a Julius Caesar, a Napoleon.

Major Gwen Anderson: We were hoping that would be you.

Ender Wiggin: Caesar was assassinated by the people he trusted.

Major Gwen Anderson: And Napoleon lost in the end.

Colonel Graff: Not before he conquered the known world... dismissed!

Colonel Graff: Don't threaten me boy, I'm not the enemy.

Ender Wiggin: I'm not so sure. I don't want to play this game any more. I quit.

Colonel Graff: There's only one kid on this launch with any brains at all so far, and that's Ender Wiggin.

[Col. Graff is taking Valentine to see Ender]

Valentine Wiggin: Come on. You just want him to re-enlist.

Colonel Graff: I want him to save lives.

Valentine Wiggin: And what about his life?

Colonel Graff: Let's see how he handles rejection.