The Best Lt. Bradley 'Rooster' Bradshaw Quotes

Bradley: My dad believed in you. I'm not going to make the same mistake.

Bradley: Captain Mitchell, Captain Mitchell, sir!
Maverick: Thank you for saving my life.
Bradley: It's what my dad would've done.

Maverick: Rooster! Bradley! Lieutenant Bradshaw!
Bradley: Yes, sir?
Maverick: Let's not do it like this.
Bradley: Are you going to wash me out?
Maverick: That'll be up to you, not me.
Bradley: Am I dismissed?

Bradley: There's more than one way to fly this mission.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: You really don't get it. On this mission, a man flies like Maverick here, or a man does not come back. No offense, intended.
Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: And somehow, you always manage.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Hey, I don't mean to criticize, you're conservative, that's all.
Maverick: Lieutenant...
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: We're going into combat son, on a level no living pilot's ever seen.
[referring to Maverick]
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Not even him. There's no time to be thinking about the past.
Bradley: What's that supposed to mean?
Maverick: Rooster...
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: I can't be the only one that knows that Maverick flew with his old man.
Maverick: That's enough.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: That Maverick was flying with his old man...
Maverick: Lieutenant, that's enough.
[the other pilots hold Rooster back from attacking Hangman]
Maverick: That's enough!
Bradley: You son of a bitch!
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Hey, I'm cool, I'm cool. Hey.
Maverick: That's enough.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: He's not cut out for this mission.
Maverick: That's enough.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: You know it. You know I'm right.
Maverick: You're all dismissed.
[the pilots leave the room]

Bradley: Talk to me dad.

Maverick: [At the beginning of a training mission] Good morning, aviators. This is your captain speaking. Welcome to Basic Fighter Maneuvers, As briefed, today's exercise is dog-fighting, guns only, no missiles. We do not go below the hard deck of 5,000 ft. Working as team you have to shoot me down or else...
Payback: ...or else what, sir?
Maverick: ...or else I shoot back. If I shoot either one of you down, you both lose.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: This guy needs an ego check.
Lt. Brigham 'Harvard' Lennox: We'll see to that!
Payback: Sir, what say we put some skin in the game?
Maverick: What do you have in mind?
Payback: Whoever gets shot down first has to do 200 push-ups.
Maverick: Guys, that's a lot of push-ups.
Fanboy: Ah well, they don't call it an exercise for nothing, sir.
Maverick: You got yourself a deal, gentlemen. Fight's on. Let's turn and burn!
Bradley: Fanboy, you see him?
Fanboy: Not beyond the radar up ahead. He must be somewhere behind us.
Bradley: [Maverick got ready and from below them, swooshed past between their jets upwards] Damn it!
Fanboy: What the hell?
Payback: Oh shit!
Maverick: Easy, Maverick. Let's try not to get fired on the first day.

Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Breaking the hard deck? Insubordination? Are you trying to get kicked out?
Bradley: Don't worry about it.
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Look, I'm going on this mission, but if you get kicked out, you leave us flying with Hangman. Talk to me, what the hell was that?
Bradley: He pulled my papers.
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: What? Who?
Bradley: Maverick. He pulled my application to Naval Academy. He set me back four years.
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Why would he do that?

Bradley: I saved your life!
Maverick: I saved *your* life! That's the whole point. What the hell were you even thinking?
Bradley: You told me not to think...
Maverick: Well, it's good to see you.
Bradley: It's good to see you, too.

Maverick: [Once airborne in F-14 Tomcat] Okay Rooster, get us in touch with the boat.
Bradley: Working on it. Radio's out, no radar, everything's dead back here, what do I do? Talk me through it.
Maverick: Okay, first the radio. Throw the UHF-2 circuit breaker, try that.
Bradley: There's 300 breakers back here, anything more specific?
Maverick: I don't know, that was your dad's department.
Bradley: I'll figure it out.
Bradley: [Looking below at 5 Gen fighters] Mav tally two, five o'clock low!
Bradley: What do we do?
Maverick: Okay listen. just be cool. If they knew who we were we'd be dead already.
Bradley: [Watching fighters increase altitude] Well, here they come. What's your plan?
Maverick: Just put your mask on. Remember, we're on the same team. Just waive and smile. Just waive and smile.
Bradley: [Watching Fifth Gen fighter pilot's hand signals] What's that signal, what's he saying?
Maverick: No idea. I have no idea what he's saying.
Bradley: What about that one, any idea?
Maverick: Nope, never seen that one either.
Maverick: Shit. His wingman is moving into weapons envelope.
Maverick: Alright, listen up. When I tell you, you grab those rigs above your head. That's the ejection handle.
Bradley: Mav, can we outrun these guys?
Maverick: Not their missiles and guns.
Bradley: Then it's a dogfight.
Maverick: An F-14 against 5th Gen fighters?
Bradley: It's not the plane, it's the pilot. You'd go after them if I wasn't here.
Maverick: But you are here.
Bradley: C'mon, Mav. Don't think, just do.
[Mav pulls right and the dogfight begins]

Bradley: Come on, Mav, do some of that pilot shit!

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: [after destroying the plane that almost killed Maverick and Rooster] Good afternoon, ladies and gentleman, this is your savior speaking. Please fasten your seat belts, return the tray tables to their locked an upright positions and prepare for landing.
Bradley: Hey, Hangman, you look good.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: I am good, Rooster. I'm very good. I'll see you back on deck.

Bradley: [seeing the Felon pull off Kvochur's bell] Holy shit. What the fuck was that?

Bradley: Why'd you pull my papers at the academy? Why didn't you just *stay out of my way*?
Maverick: You weren't ready.
Bradley: Ready for what? Huh? Ready to fly like you?
Maverick: No, ready to forget the book. Trust your instincts! Don't think, just do. You think up there, you're dead. Believe me.
Bradley: My dad believed in you. I'm not gonna make the same mistake.

Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Say, Phoenix. How's about we tell everybody 'Bob' stands for something? Other than Robert, I mean.
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Don't take the bait, Bob. Wanna know why we call him Hangman?
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: All right. I got it. Baby On Board.
[Maverick appears out of nowhere and flies by at full speed between Phoenix and Hangman's planes]
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Shit!
Maverick: Greetings aviators. Fight's on!
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Alright, Phoenix. let's take this guy out!
Bradley: [Listening to the radio] Watch your back, Phoenix!
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Break right!
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Breaking right.
[Hangman leaves Phoenix]
Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: Where's he going?
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: That's why we call him Hangman. He'll always hang you out to dry.
Maverick: Leaving your wingman. There's a strategy I haven't seen in a while.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: He called you a man, Phoenix. You gonna take that?
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: So long as he doesn't call you a man.
[towards Bob]
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Talk to me Bob, where's Maverick?
Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: Jesus, his nose is already coming around!
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Get him off me, Hangman!
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: For all you folks at home, this is how you bury a fossil!
Maverick: Alright, Hangman. Time to teach you a lesson.
[Maverick puts Phoenix and Bob on missile lock]
Maverick: You're out, Phoenix.
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Son of a bitch!
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Let's go Mav, let's see what you got.
Maverick: Come get me!
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Evil be gone. Hangman's coming!
[Hangman keeps up with Maverick]
Maverick: Yeah, you're good. I'll give you that.
[Maverick flies up to the sun, blinding Hangman, who is after him]
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Shit! Phoenix I can't see him. How close am I? Phoenix?
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: I'm dead, dickhead!
Lt. Robert 'Bob' Floyd: See you in the afterlife, Bagman.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: Where is he? Where is he?
[Maverick soars from behind Hangman and paints him killed]
Maverick: That's a kill.

Maverick: Thank you for saving my life.
Bradley: It's what my dad would've done.

Bradley: Please don't tell me we lost an engine.
Maverick: Alright, I won't tell you that.

Bradley: [after looking at a hangar in the bombed enemy airfield] You've got to be shitting me! An F-14?
Maverick: I shot down three Migs in one of those.
Bradley: We don't even know if that bag of ass can fly.
Maverick: Let's find out.
Bradley: [Maverick runs to the hangar and Rooster follows him] Mav! OK.

Bradley: Got yourself another kill.
Lt. Jake 'Hangman' Seresin: That makes two.
Lt. Natasha 'Phoenix' Trace: Mav has five. Makes him an ace

Bradley: Then it's a dog fight.
Maverick: An F-14 against 5th-Gen fighters?
Bradley: It's not the plane. It's the pilot.