Maggie to Ben: Your wife left you. Your best friend is dead. You sound like a country song. If you had a dog, he'd be run over by now.

Jake: How do you choose who to save?
Ben: I swim as fast and as hard as I can, for as long as I can. And the sea takes the rest.

Ben: It's 22.
Jake: Well that's not... bad... It's not 200 but...
Ben: 22 is the number of people that I've lost. It's the only number that I've kept track of.

Jake: What makes a legend? Is it what a man does while he's alive? Or is it what he's remembered for after he dies?

Jake: There is a legend of a man under the sea. A fisher of men. He is called the Guardian.

Jake: That guy who holds all them records? I just thought you outta let him know I'm about to knock his name off that board.
Capt. Frank Larson: Maybe you should let him know yourself. He's standing in the back of the room.

Jake: You gotta make a move!
Billy: I can't. I get nervous.
Jake: You're tellin' me you can jump outta helicopters but you're afraid to go talk to a girl?
Billy: Uh... pretty much, yeah.

Jake: I wanna apologize for earlier... thought there might be somethin you wanna apologize for too.
Ben: Why?

Ben: There will come a time when you have to decide who lives and who dies.

Ben: Who here can tell me the rescue swimmer's motto?
Jake: So others may live, senior chief!
Ben: Ohh I feel safer already.