Navy quotes

- Captain: Not bad in here, is it? No mail, no telephone. Solid wood paneling. Well-ventilated boat. Free food, too. "Rolling in clover" we are.
- Der Leitende: ...Like fresh horse-droppings. They're "Rolling in clover" as well. They have no need to make a living. They're even allowed to smoke.
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte
Klaus Wennemann - Chief Engineer Fritz Grade - Der Leitende-Der LI

“It was what they were ordered to do. Out in the real world, it means nothing, and in the Washington navy yard it doesn't mean a whole lot more, but if you're a marine assigned rifle company Windward Guantánamo Bay Cuba, if you're given an order you follow it or you pack your bags.”
Tom Cruise - Lt. Daniel Kaffee

“We each have our jobs. Now I'm a Marine. That means I do the serious work. You're a Navy pilot. That means that you sit here and... eat jello.”

Charles Malik Whitfield - Rodway

“The crew is deeply demoralized and I must accept, as every captain must, the inevitable and theoretical responsibility for that. The actual and immediate responsibility, however, I place on you, my fellow officers who met this crisis with lethargy, impudence and flagrant defiance, publicly uttered.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

Now, call me a prude if you want, but I don't think it's good policy for the Navy to hand over a billion-dollar piece of equipment to a man who has "Welcome Aboard" tattooed on his penis.
Bruce Dern - Admiral Graham

“- Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson: We'll pick it up on the way back. We gotta mark the spot, though. Put Robinowitz in a life raft. Have him row in circles until we return.
- Communications Officer: It could be days.
- Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson: Then put some food in the life raft, for God's sake, man. Do I have to think of everything? We'll tape his...” (continue)(continue reading)

Lloyd Bridges - Adm. Thomas 'Tug' Benson
Jeff Bright - Communications Officer

“Sixty percent of you will not pass this course! How do I know? Because that is an historical fact! Now for the bad news, I always like to get one quitter on the first day, and until I do, that first day does not end!”

Viggo Mortensen - Master Chief John James Urgayle

“You have obtained degrees from the Navy, but you have not got our admiration.”

Clark Gable - Christian

“The Royal Navy is not a humorous institution, sir, and insubordination is no laughing matter.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Lieutenant William Bligh

“Is the colonel's underwear a matter of national security?”

Tom Cruise - Lt. Daniel Kaffee