Masters of the Air
Fridays on Apple TV+Major Gale “Buck” Cleven Quotes
Bucky: Did ya miss me?
Buck: Like a stone in my shoe.
First time in the sawmill boys. Let’s rack ‘em up and knock ‘em down.
Buck: Why didn’t you tell me?
Bucky: What?
Buck: You’ve been up. Two missions. You didn’t tell me it was like that.
Bucky: I didn’t know what to say. You’ve seen it now.
Buck: I don’t know what I saw. Thirty guys, just —
Bucky: I should have been up there with you.
Buck: A long road ahead of us.
Bucky: Yeah.
Bucky: You got up early this morning.
Buck: Did I?
Bucky: To see Colonel Harding. Before me. Oh, I can read upside down, Buck.
Buck: All I said was the Army’s right about you being a leader, but you lead best as a squadron commander.
You don’t gotta send me any flowers.
Bucky: I made one last request before being demoted. I want to write the letters to the families of the boys that we lost. I think it will be better coming from me, someone that they never met.
Buck: I’ll help you.
Bucky: I’d appreciate that. You know, if this whole thing ended, and there were only two pilots left up in the air, it would be me, and it would be you, Buck.
Buck: Don’t count on it.
Buck: That RAF prick was right. These daylight missions -- they’re suicide.
Bucky: Then why didn’t you agree with him?
Buck: I didn’t like his delivery.
Bucky: Huh. Well, if you aren’t a betting man, then what’s the move?
Buck: We lead our boys through it.
