Maverick Quotes in Top Gun (1986)

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Maverick Quotes:

  • Maverick: I feel the need...

    MaverickGoose: ...the need for speed!

  • Maverick: Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.

    Air Boss Johnson: Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.

  • Viper: Good morning, gentlemen, the temperature is 110 degrees.

    Wolfman: Holy shit, it's Viper!

    Goose: Viper's up here, great... oh shit...

    Maverick: Great, he's probably saying, "Holy shit, it's Maverick and Goose."

    Goose: Yeah, I'm sure he's saying that.

  • Charlie: Excuse me, Lieutenant. Is there something wrong?

    Maverick: Yes ma'am, the data on the MiG is inaccurate.

    Charlie: How's that, Lieutenant?

    Maverick: Well, I just happened to see a MiG 28 do a...

    Goose: We!

    Maverick: Uh, sorry, Goose. *We* happened to see a MiG 28 do a 4g negative dive.

    Charlie: Where did you see this?

    Maverick: Uh, that's classified.

    Charlie: It's what?

    Maverick: It's classified. I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

  • Charlie: So, lieutenant, where exactly were you?

    Maverick: Well, we...

    Goose: Thank you.

    Maverick: Started up on a 6, when he pulled from the clouds, and then I moved in above him.

    Charlie: Well, if you were directly above him, how could you see him?

    Maverick: Because I was inverted.

    Iceman: [coughs whilst saying] Bullshit.

    Goose: No, he was man. It was a really great move. He was inverted.

    Charlie: You were in a 4g inverted dive with a MiG28?

    Maverick: Yes, ma'am.

    Charlie: At what range?

    Maverick: Um, about two meters.

    Goose: It was actually about one and a half I think. It was one and a half. I've got a great Polaroid of it, and he's right there, must be one and a half.

    Maverick: Was a nice picture.

    Goose: Thanks.

    Charlie: Eh, lieutenant, what were you doing there?

    Goose: Communicating.

    Maverick: Communicating. Keeping up foreign relations. You know, giving him the bird!

    Goose: [Charlie looks puzzled, so Goose clarifies] You know, the finger

    Charlie: Yes, I know the finger, Goose.

    Goose: I-I'm sorry, I hate it when it does that, I'm sorry. Excuse me.

  • Maverick: [spots Charlie for the first time] She's lost that loving feeling.

    Goose: She's lo... No she hasn't.

    Maverick: Yes, she has.

    Goose: She's not lost that lo...

    Maverick: Goose, she's lost it, man.

    Goose: Come on!

    Goose: [to himself] Aw sh... I hate it when she does that.

  • Stinger: Maverick, you just did an incredibly brave thing. What you should have done was land your plane! You don't own that plane, the tax payers do! Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash. You've been busted, you lost your qualifications as section leader three times, put in hack twice by me, with a history of high speed passes over five air control towers, and one admiral's daughter!

    Goose: Penny Benjamin?

    [Maverick shrugs]

    Stinger: And you asshole, you're lucky to be here!

    Goose: Thank you, sir.

    Stinger: And let's not bullshit Maverick. Your family name ain't the best in the Navy. You need to be doing it better, and cleaner than the other guy. Now what is it with you?

    Maverick: Just want to serve my country, be the best pilot in the Navy, sir.

    Stinger: Don't screw around with me Maverick. You're a hell of an instinctive pilot. Maybe too good. I'd like to bust your butt but I can't. I got another problem here. I gotta send somebody from this squadron to Miramar. I gotta do something here, I still can't believe it. I gotta give you your dream shot! I'm gonna send you up against the best. You two characters are going to Top Gun.

  • Iceman: You can be my wingman any time.

    Maverick: Bullshit! You can be mine.

  • [last lines]

    Charlie: Hello, Pete Mitchell. I heard the best of the best were going to be back here, so uh...

    Maverick: This could be complicated. You know on the first one I crashed and burned.

    Charlie: And the second?

    Maverick: I don't know, but uh, it's looking good so far.

  • Maverick: Jesus Christ, and you think I'm reckless? When I fly, I'll have you know that my crew and my plane come first.

    Charlie: Well, I am going to finish my sentence, Lieutenant. My review of your flight performance was right on.

    Maverick: Is that right?

    Charlie: That is right, but I held something back. I see some real genius in your flying, Maverick, but I can't say that in there. I was afraid that everyone in the tax trailer would see right through me, and I just don't want anyone to know that I've fallen for you.

  • Charlie: [Maverick and Goose have just successfully serenaded Charlie with their rendition of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling."] Sit down! I love that song! How long have you two been doing this act?

    Maverick: Oh, since uh...

    Charlie: Puberty?

    Maverick: Right, puberty.

  • Maverick: Talk to me, Goose.

  • Charlie: I'll have what he's having. Hemlock, is it?

    Maverick: Ice water.

  • Charlie: Listen, can I ask you a personal question?

    Maverick: That depends.

    Charlie: Are you a good pilot?

    Maverick: I can hold my own.

    Charlie: Great, then I won't have to worry about you making your living as a singer.

    Maverick: I'm going to need a beer to put these flames out. Yo! Great Mav, real slick.

  • Stinger: And if you screw up just this much, you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong!

    Maverick: Yes, sir!

  • Goose: No. No, Mav, this is not a good idea.

    Maverick: Sorry, Goose, but it's time to buzz the tower.

  • Maverick: I think I'll go embarrass myself with Goose.

  • Stinger: They gave you your choice of duty, son. Anything, anywhere. Do you believe that shit? Where do you think you wanna go?

    Maverick: I thought of being an instructor, sir.

    Stinger: Top Gun?

    Maverick: Yes, sir.

    Stinger: God help us.

  • Viper: I flew with your old man. VF-51, the Oriskany. You're a lot like he was. Only better... and worse. He was a natural heroic son of a bitch that one.

    Maverick: So he did do it right.

    Viper: Yeah, he did it right... Is that why you fly the way you do? Trying to prove something? Yeah, your old man did it right. What I'm about to tell you is classified. It could end my career. We were in the worst dogfight I ever dreamed of. There were bogeys like fireflies all over the sky. His F-4 was hit, and he was wounded, but he could've made it back. He stayed in it, saved three planes before he bought it.

    Maverick: How come I never heard that before?

    Viper: Well, that's not something the State Department tells dependents when the battle occurred over the wrong line on some map.

    Maverick: So you were there?

    Viper: I was there. What's on your mind?

    Maverick: My options, sir.

    Viper: Simple. First you've acquired enough points to show up tomorrow and graduate with your Top Gun class, or you can quit. There'd be no disgrace. That spin was hell, it would've shook me up.

    Maverick: So you think I should quit?

    Viper: I didn't say that. The simple fact is you feel responsible for Goose and you have a confidence problem. Now I'm not gonna sit here and blow sunshine up your ass, Lieutenant. A good pilot is compelled to evaluate what's happened, so he can apply what he's learned. Up there, we gotta push it. That's our job. It's your option, Lieutenant. All yours.

    Maverick: Sorry to bother you on a Sunday, sir, but thank you very much for your time.

    Viper: No problem. Good luck.

  • Maverick: That son of a bitch cut me off!

  • Merlin: What are you doing? You're slowing down, you're slowing down!

    Maverick: I'm bringing him in closer, Merlin.

    Merlin: You're gonna do what?

  • [after Maverick decides not to shoot down Jester during a training exercise]

    Sundown: Hey, man, we could have had him. Hey, we could have had him, man!

    Maverick: [grabs Sundown] I will fire when I am goddamn good and ready! You got that?

    [continues walking away]

  • [Maverick is in a dogfight with a MiG and is down to one missile left]

    Merlin: This is it, Maverick!

    Maverick: I'm gonna hit the brakes, he'll fly right by.

    Merlin: Shit! He's gonna get a lock on us!

    Maverick: [the MiG eventually gets a lock onto Maverick] NOW!

    [Maverick slams the breaks and the MiG passes by, then Maverick locks onto the MiG]

    Maverick: Got a good lock, firing.

    [the MiG is then destroyed by the missile]

    Maverick: Whoo! Scratch four!

  • Maverick: This is what I call a target-rich environment.

    Goose: You live your life between your legs, Mav.

    Maverick: Goose, even you could get laid in a place like this.

    Goose: Hell, I'd be happy to just find a girl that would talk dirty to me.

  • Charlie: What do you wanna do? Just drop down on the tile and go for it?

    Maverick: No, actually I had this counter in mind.

    Charlie: Great, that would be very, very comfortable, yeah.

    Maverick: It could be.

  • Maverick: [to Cougar and Merlin while up in the air] Any of you boys seen an aircraft-carrier around here?

  • [after the final dogfight]

    Maverick: Mustang, this is Maverick, requesting fly-by.

    Air Boss Johnson: Negative, Ghost Rider. The Pattern is full.

    Merlin: Uh, excuse me, something I should know about?

    Air Boss Johnson: [gets his coffee] Thank you.

    [Maverick does a fly-by past the Enterprise, causing the Air Boss to spill his coffee]

    Air Boss Johnson: Goddamn that guy.

  • [Charlie has just given Maverick her address while pretending to turn down his date offer]

    Slider: Crashed and burned! Huh, Mav?

    Maverick: Hey, Slider.

    [sniffs]

    Maverick: You stink!

  • Maverick: You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead.

  • Viper: How ya doin'?

    Maverick: I'm all right.

    Viper: Goose is dead.

    Maverick: I know.

    Viper: You fly jets long enough, something like this happens.

    Maverick: He was my R.I.O., my responsibility.

    Viper: My squadron, we lost 8 of 18 aircraft. 10 men. First one dies, you die too. But there will be others. You can count on that. You gotta let him go. You gotta let him go.

  • Goose: It's the bottom of the 9th, the score is tied. It's time for the big one.

    Iceman: You up for this one, Maverick?

    Maverick: Just a walk in the park, Kazansky.

  • Maverick: Standby, Viper's coming down.

  • Radio Operator: Maverick, you're at 3/4 of a mile. Call the ball.

    Maverick: Roger. Maverick has the ball.

  • Iceman: You two really are cowboys.

    Maverick: What's your problem, Kazansky?

    Iceman: You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous.

    Maverick: That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous.

  • Maverick: I can see it's dangerous for you, but if the government trusts me, maybe you could.

    Charlie: It takes a lot more than just fancy flying.

  • Viper: In case some of you are wondering who the best is, they are up here on this plaque.

    [turns to Maverick]

    Viper: Do you think your name will be on that plaque?

    Maverick: Yes, sir.

    Viper: That's pretty arrogant, considering the company you're in.

    Maverick: Yes, sir.

    Viper: I like that in a pilot.

  • 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.

  • Viper: [after the first hop with Jester ends with Maverick shooting down Jester at the hard deck and Maverick doing a fly-by near a tower] Gentlemen... You had a hell of a first day. The hard deck for this hop was 10,000 feet. You knew it, you broke it. You followed Commander Heatherly below after he lost sight of you and called no joy. Why?

    Maverick: Sir! I had Commander Heatherly in my sights, he saw me move in for the kill. He then proceeded below the hard deck. We weren't below 10,000 for more than a few seconds. I had the shot, there was no danger, so I took it.

    Viper: You took it... AND BROKE A MAJOR RULE OF ENGAGEMENT. Then you broke another one with that, uh, circus stunt fly-by.

    [Viper sighs]

    Viper: Lieutenant Mitchell... Top Gun rules of engagement exists for your safety and for that of your team. They are not flexible, nor am I. Either obey them, or you're history. Is that clear?

  • Maverick: Jesus, this guy's good!

  • Maverick: I'll hit the brakes, he'll fly right by.

  • Maverick: Too close for missles, I'm switching to guns.

  • Maverick: There's Viper.

    Goose: Hey Mav, stay with Hollywood.

    Hollywood: Yeah Mav, stay with me.

    Maverick: Hollywood, you look good. I'm going after Viper.

    Hollywood: God dammit, Maverick.

  • Maverick: Oh, you sure do pick the spots.

    Joseph: Yeah, I know. You know the next time you people come and drive us off our land I'm gonna find a nice piece of swamp that's so God-awful, maybe then you'll leave us the hell alone.

  • Annabelle: Well look at this. Here's a lot of money and your gun is six feet away.

    Zane CooperMaverick: Eight.

    Annabelle: What a remarkable family.

    Maverick: How'd she - how'd she figure that?

    Annabelle: Well, you all don't have the exclusive on tells! You both have the same height, the same build, you both talk the same, you both kiss the same, you both draw your guns the same, and you both sing the same wrong words to 'Amazing Grace'.

    Zane CooperMaverick: Do not.

  • Maverick: [talking to the village thieves] The man who'll blow your brains out is Marshal Zane Cooper. You've probably heard of him, I know what you're thinking, he's old and decrepit, gums his food AND his women, but he can still shoot straight.

    Maverick: After you is ugly Annie Bransford. When she was born, she came out backwards and no one noticed. Hell, when she was little, her parents had to tie a pork chop around her neck so the dog would play with her. When she's making love, she has to pretend SHE'S someone else!

  • Maverick: See that hawk? You know what it means?

    Annabelle: No. What does it mean?

    Maverick: Nothing. But you didn't know that did you?

  • Maverick: [while unbuttoning his shirt] Now, it's time for you to do something that I want

    Annabelle: How dare you. I am a lady. Not if you were a hundred years old, not if I was a hundred years old...

    Maverick: Oh shut up. I don't want to go to bed with you, lady.

    Annabelle: [disappointed] Why not?

    Maverick: Why not? I'd be too frightened. God knows what parts of me you'd steal. I'd wake up with all sorts of things missing.

  • Annabelle: There isn't a Mrs. Maverick is there?

    Maverick: Oh I'm sure I would have remembered.

  • Maverick: I've just noticed something.

    Annabelle: What?

    Maverick: You can't help it can you? You are irresistible.

  • Maverick: Oh, what the hell! I feel like being silly. I'll call... Uh...

    [clearing his throat]

    Maverick: It's just a pair of sixes. If you can beat that you got me licked, and that's not a totally unpleasant prospect.

  • Annabelle: Well, they're Indians. They probably just stole the ponies!

    Maverick: Not everybody's like you, Mrs. Bransford.

    Annabelle: What is it with you and Indians anyway?

    Maverick: Oh, nothing. I try and shoot one a day, if possible, before noon. How 'bout you, Coop? I figure it's their fault for being on our land before we got here.

  • Maverick: So, are you gonna miss me?

    Annabelle: Are you gonna miss me?

    Maverick: You are gonna miss me.

    Annabelle: how do you know that?

    Annabelle: I was not... maybe I was.

  • Maverick: Lord... whatever I've done to piss you off... if you could just get me out of this and somehow let me know what it was I promise to rectify the situation.

  • Maverick: Well, now, I bring all sorts of plusses to the table. I hardly ever bluff and I never ever cheat.

  • Annabelle: How'd you know I was bluffing? I didn't do any of my tells. I didn't shuffle my cards, I didn't pull my hair, I didn't even flick my teeth.

    Maverick: You held your breath. If you'd been excited, you would have started breathing harder.

    Annabelle: I did not.

    [Looks at the Commodore]

    Annabelle: Did I?

    [Commodore nods]

    Annabelle: [Annabelle looks at Angel] Did I?

    [Angel nods]

    Annabelle: [Annabelle looks at the dealer] Did I?

    [the dealer nods]

    Annabelle: Well, I'll just pretend I was playin' with someone else's money.

    Maverick: That shouldn't be too hard.

    [Annabelle gets up. Cooper leans toward her]

    Zane Cooper: [whispering] You did hold your breath, ma'am.

  • Zane Cooper: Well, Bret, you know what we ended up with? A half a million dollar silk shirt.

    Maverick: Nope, we ended up with a quarter million dollar silk shirt, because my old pappy always used to say "Don't put the chicken in front of"... no, wait "Never cut the cards before"... no, wait, "Don't put all you eggs in one basket".

    Zane Cooper: Now that, I said.

  • Maverick: I've only got one gun, that's 6 bullets. They're six, that's 36 bullets. Maybe they've got two guns, that's 72 bullets, maybe they've got rifles...

    Annabelle: You're babbling.

    Maverick: No I wasn't.

  • Stable Boy: [Yelling] Pa, this man wants to know if you want to buy a burro.

    Stable owner: That burro ain't worth a dollar!

    Maverick: Well, sir, I say you got yourself a deal.

    Stable owner: Here's your dollar.

    Maverick: Well, he doesn't eat much, but he's a regular jackass, and hee-haw, hee-haw, he hawlways likes to be called Arthur.

  • Annabelle: What kind of animal are you?

    Maverick: Vulture.

  • Maverick: From the moment I slapped eyes on this hombre, I smelled trouble. And re-fried beans.

  • Maverick: My old pappy always used to say, "there is no more deeply satisfying religious experience... than cheatin' on a cheater."

    Zane Cooper: I never said that once. You've been misquoting me all your life.

    Maverick: What, we're going to quibble over fine points?

    Zane Cooper: You never even get close. Give me some credit.

  • Maverick: I don't know why I kept the rest of the money in the satchel, though.

    Zane Cooper: I do.

    Maverick: So do I. Sure will be a whole lot of fun getting it back.

  • Annabelle: [speaking in a very southern drawl] A shouldn't be doin' this.

    Maverick: You're just standing in the hallway, Mrs. Bransford, I think that's still legal in this state.

  • Maverick: You tend to breathe hard when you get excited.

    Annabelle: How did you - oh.

  • [an old man walks up to the wagon, and Maverick tries to help him up]

    Driver: No, no. I'm the driver.

    Maverick: Oh. Are you all right?

    Driver: Why does everybody always ask me that?

  • Edge: Lets go out & have some fun, get their attention.

    Maverick: YES, go spread the chaos. Once this world's defenses are down, I can rule, just like I did with Ravena.

  • Maverick: Your death is written on my hands.

  • Maverick: If you fight me, you will die.

    Sky: That's my line.

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