Black Hawk Down Quotes

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Now, there will be some shooting. Bakara Market is the Wild West, but be careful what you shoot at because people do live there.

Motherfuckers! Motherfuckers!

McKnight : Struecker, you lead humvee.
Struecker : Hoo-ah!

Get us off this fucking street!

Pilla : Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us!
McKnight : Well shoot back!

Fuuuuck this!

McKnight : You, get up there and drive!
Othic : But I'm shot Colonel!
McKnight : Everybody's shot! We need the prisoners, let's go!

Look, these people, they have no jobs, no food, no education, no future. I just figure that we have two things we can do. Help, or we can sit back and watch a country destroy itself on CNN. Right?

Nick Schaffer : I think we just killed him!
Tracy Faucet : You can't kill him, he's like a cockroach!

My grandfather used to say that good things take time, but great things happen all at once.

Tracy Faucet : So what's wrong with her?
Nick Schaffer : Who?
Tracy Faucet : Your sister. You said it was serious.
Nick Schaffer : Oh yeah... shark bite.
Tracy Faucet : Shark bite?
Nick Schaffer : Yeah.
Tracy Faucet : And they took her to Silver City?
Nick Schaffer : Yeah, they have a really good shark attack unit there.

Tracy Faucet : C'mon, open it!
Nick Schaffer : You know, Tracy, I really don't feel comfortable...
Tracy Faucet : OPEN IT!
Nick Schaffer : Okay.

Eversmann : I was talking to Blackburn the other day, and he asked me "What changed? Why are we going home?" and I said "Nothing." That's not true either; I think everything's changed. I know I've changed.
Eversmann : You know a friend of mine asked me before I got here; it's when we were all shipping out. He asked me "Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do you think you're heroes?" I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he'd ask me again I'd say no. I'd say there's not way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero.
Eversmann : It just sometimes turns out that way.

Eversmann : What the fuck, Smith?
Smith : Well?
Eversmann : "Well" what?
Smith : We going out?
Eversmann : Why should I tell you?
Smith : Because I'm me!

Eversmann : Remember, we're Rangers not some sorry-ass JROTC. We're Elite. Let's act like it out there. Hoo-ah?
Rangers : Hoo-ah!

Maddox : Sir, they're going to get us fucking killed out there!
McKnight : Just get it over with!

Sanderson : Are you alright?
Grimes : Yeah, I can hear bells ringin'!

Eversmann : You know, it's kind of funny. Beautiful beach, beautiful sun. Could almost be a nice place to visit.
"Hoot" : Almost.

McKnight : How are things going? Things okay there, Struecker?
Struecker : I don't wanna talk about it now, Colonel. I'm busy!
Thomas : Sergeant Pilla's hit! Christ, he's fucked up!
McKnight : Is anybody hit? Struecker, talk to me!
Struecker : It's Sergeant Pilla!
McKnight : What's his status? What's his status?
"Hoot" : He's dead!
Struecker : He's dead. Pilla's dead, sir.
McKnight : C2, this is McKnight, we have a KIA: Dominick Pilla, over.
Harell : Roger that.
Struecker : Get on that fifty! Someone get on that fifty!
"Hoot" : It's mine!

Eversmann : You brought your gun?
Todd Blackburn : Yes, Sarn't! Want me to shoot? I'm rested.
Eversmann : When'd you get in?
Todd Blackburn : Just now, Sarn't.

Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

It's all in the grind, Sizemore. Can't be too fine, can't be too coarse. This, my friend, is a science. I mean you're looking at the guy that believed all the commercials. You know, about the "be all you can be." I made coffee through Desert Storm. I made coffee through Panama while everyone else got to fight, got to be a Ranger. Now it's "Grimesy, black, one sugar" or "Grimesy, got a powdered anywhere?"

Grimes : Why are they burning tires?
Waddell : Signals to the militia, that we're coming.

Grimes : Why aren't you shooting?
Waddell : We're not being shot at yet.
Grimes : How can you tell?
Waddell : A hiss means it's close. A snap means...
Waddell : Now they're shooting at us!

Sanderson : So where did they find you?
Grimes : Behind a desk.
Grimes : No really.

Crew Chief : Hey, Grimesy! No fear!
Grimes : Oh, yeah, RIGHT!