Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales Quotes in Battleship (2012)

[overlooking the alien camp]

Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: You ready?

Cal Zapata: I'm sorry, but there is no way that I am going down there. I do not possess that kind of courage.

Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: Right now, you're going to acquire that courage, or else I'm going to break my steel leg off in your ass. You feel me?

Cal Zapata: I feel you.

Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: Go. Now.

Cal Zapata: [gets up] Acquiring courage... acquiring courage...

[while Sam is trapped in the car, an alien soldier approaches]

Sam: Mick...?

Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: I got this.

[watching the aliens at the satellite array]

Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: The most critical part of any military operation: establish communications, reinforcements, follow-on forces.

Cal Zapata: You're saying E.T. wants to phone home? That would be incredibly, incredibly bad.

Lieutenant Colonel Mick Canales: I've never seen an alien.