John Price (Original)/Quotes

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
"Right...what the hell kind of name is "Soap", eh? How'd a muppet like you pass selection?"

- Captain Price's first words to John "Soap" MacTavish.

"Crew expendable."

- Captain Price commenting on Gaz asking the "rules of engagement" in the cutscene before Crew Expendable.

"Gotcha!"

- Price to John "Soap" MacTavish at the end of Crew Expendable when MacTavish almost falls out of the helicopter that he jumps into.

"Big Bird, this is Bravo Six, we're on our way out. On your feet, soldier! We are leaving!"

- Price to Soap in Crew Expendable, to while he is lying on the ground when the ship gets hit, the second last line being a reference to the movie 'Aliens'.

"Nice shot, MacMillan would be impressed."

- Captain Price commenting on Soap's sniping in Blackout.

"Why'd you do it?! Where did you get the bomb?!"

- Captain Price, interrogating Al-Asad.

"...Of course, we couldn't just let that happen. Cash for spent fuel rods? That's one hell of a recipe for destruction... It was the first time our government had authorized an assassination order since the second World War. I was under the command of Captain MacMillain."

- Price during his flashback in "All Ghillied Up".

"...?/Zakhaev. Imran Zakhaev."

- Price, after executing Al-Asad.

".../No! We can't risk it! Hold your fire!"

- Telling Griggs to hold fire against Victor Zakhaev.

".../That was my first thought, but your arse had all the C4."

- Captain Price talking to SSgt. Griggs in "Ultimatum".

"Cheeky bastard..."

- Captain Price to Gaz in No Fighting In The War Room.

"Hind! Six o' clock high!"

- Price informing team of a Hind in Game Over.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
"Whatever you're going to do, Soap, do it fast!"

- Price to Soap in The Gulag.

"Price: Sheperd are you willing to do what is necessary to win? / Shepherd: Always. / Price: We got ourselves a pretty big fire. Gonna need a huge bang. / Shepherd : Price, you've been locked in the gulag for too long. Better get your mind right, son. Focus on taking out Makarov. / Price: No can do, sir. We have to end this war today. / Shepherd : I'm not asking you, Price. This is an order! You're to— / [Connection Terminated] / Price : Looks like we lost our connection."

- Price and Shepherd arguing about launching a warhead above Washington, D.C.

"Ghost, come in! This is Price! We're under attack by Shepherd's men in the boneyard! Soap, hold the left flank! Do not trust Shepherd! I say again, do not trust Shepherd! Soap, get down!"

- Price trying to warn Ghost and Roach about Shepherd's betrayal in Loose Ends.

"You have to trust someone to be betrayed. I never did."

- Price to John "Soap" MacTavish and Nikolai after Shepherd betrayed Task Force 141.

"Patience... Don't do anything stupid..."

- Price in Contingency, referring to a quote from MacMillan in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

"There's the submarine, right below that crane! Roach, soften up their defenses with the Predator. Watch for the flashing strobes—that's us."

- Price in Contingency.

"The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take...inventory. [...] Out-gunned. Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and the rocks here, stained with thousands of years of warfare... They will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the Earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight: We. Will. Kill him."

- Price's speech in the cutscene of Just Like Old Times.

".../Don't bother. This was a one-way flight, mate."

- Price to Nikolai in Just Like Old Times.

"Just like old times."

- Price, after he and Soap kills the patrol in Just Like Old Times.

"This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives, and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost. Shepherd will be a hero, 'cause all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood. He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history. His truth will be the truth. But only if he lives, and we die."

- Captain Price's speech in the intro to Endgame.

"I thought I told you this was a one-way trip."

- Price to Nikolai in Endgame.

"Nikolai, we gotta get Soap out of here."

- Price to Nikolai in Endgame.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
"If he's back on the grid, then so are we."

- Price, on the "Redemption" trailer for Modern Warfare 3.

"Your moves are miscalculated, and underestimating your enemies—your biggest mistake. You will find the will of a single man can be broken."

- Price, on the "Redemption" trailer for Modern Warfare 3.

"The life you knew before is gone. Today, we fight to bring it back."

- Price, in the launch trailer of Modern Warfare 3.

"Your world as you knew it is gone. How far would you go to bring it back? Shepherd created a war, but only we knew the truth."

- Price, in the MW3 Introduction

"They say truth is the first casualty of war. But who defines what's true? [...] Truth is just a matter of perspective. The duty of every soldier is to protect the innocent, and sometimes that means preserving the lie of good and evil—that war isn't just natural selection played out on a grand scale. [...] The only truth I found is that the world we live in is a giant tinderbox. All it takes...is someone to light the match."

- Price, during the Turbulence mission pre-cutscene

"Right, then. This is for the boys at Hereford."

- Price, as he executes Waraabe in "Return To Sender"

".../Tell 'em to join the bloody queue"

- Price hearing from Sandman of a US Kill / Capture order on his head, during the "Bag and Drag" opening cutscene.

"Oh, no, no, no, no, no! Soap! No, no! No! Soap!"

- Price, after Soap dies in "Blood Brothers".

"Soap trusted you. I thought I could too. So why, in bloody hell, does Makarov know you?!"

- Price, questioning Yuri after Soap's death in "Blood Brothers".

"This is for Soap."

- Captain Price during "Dust to Dust".

"There's a clocktower in Hereford where the names of the dead are inscribed. We try to honor their deeds, even as their faces fade from our memory. Those memories are all that's left, when the bastards have taken everything else."

- Price, refering to Soap, during the "Stronghold" pre-cutscene.

"There's a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare—and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history...is the will of a single man."

- Price, during the "Dust to Dust" mission pre-cutscene.