Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle Quotes in Pearl Harbor (2001)

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: There's nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: I heard what you did.

Rafe: We can explain that, sir.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Explain what?

Danny: Whatever it is you heard about us, sir.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: You mean the hoola shirts you were flying in... or the seven planes you shot down.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: You know what top secret is?"

Rafe: Yes, sir. It's the kind of mission where you get medals, but they send 'em to your relatives.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Secretary of the Navy gave me these.

Danny: What are they?

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Friendship medals the Japanese gave us when they were pretending they wanted peace.

Rafe: What do you want me to do with them sir?

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: We're gonna wire them to the bombs and give them back.

A pilot: What if we have to bail out over Japan?

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Well, in that situation, I can't tell you what to do.

Rafe: What would you do, colonel?

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: I wasn't built to be a prisoner... so I would have my crew bail out. I'd find the sweetest military target I could and drive my plane right smack into the middle of it and kill as many of those bastards as I possibly could.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Where'd you find religion?

Doolittle Co-Pilot: When you assigned me to this mission, Sir.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: I want you to do me a favor.

Doolittle Co-Pilot: What's that, Colonel?

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Pray for both of us.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: That's bull-shit MacCawley... but it's very, very good bull-shit.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: Victory belongs to those who believe in it the most and believe in it the longest. We're gonna believe. We're gonna make America believe too.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: [to his men] Boys, there's a phrase I want you to memorize, "Wo si yi ge mei guo ren.", it means "I am an American." in Chinese.

[Later after Col Doolittle explains the mission]

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: And I will tell you one thing... leave your goddamn hula shirts at home.

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: You know at Pearl they hit us with a sledgehammer. This raid, even if it makes it through, it'll only be a pinprick... but it'll be straight through their hearts.