“- Lt. Jeff Knight: What's it like?
- Sgt. Michael McNamara: What's it like? You go out on patrol, and you kill a few of them. Then they kill a few of yours. Then you go back to base. Eat. Sleep. Next day, same thing. Before you know it, you're either dead, or you're going home. It's good.”
Michael Dudikoff - Lt. Jeff Knight
Robert F. Lyons - Sgt. Michael McNamara

“You're the backside of the army, and don't you forget it!”

Mark Ferris - Col. Rank

“My name's Gunnery Sergeant Highway and I've drunk more beer and banged more quiff and pissed more blood and stomped more ass that all of you numbnuts put together. Now Major Powers has put me in charge of this reconisence platoon.”
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“Take your post. The Marines are looking for a few good men. Unfortunately you ain't it. We will blaze a path into battle for others to follow. Surrender is not in our creed. Let me here you say that.”
Clint Eastwood - Highway

“- Sergeant Webster: Major Powers and I are building an e-lite company of fighting men.
- Highway: The only thing you could build, Webster... is a good case of hemorrhoids.”
Moses Gunn - Sgt. Webster
Clint Eastwood - Highway