Once more, we play our dangerous game, a game of chess against our old adversary - The American Navy. For forty years, your fathers before you and your older brothers played this game and played it well. But today the game is different. We have the advantage.

We will pass through the American patrols, past their sonar nets, and lay off their largest city, and listen to their rock and roll... while we conduct missile drills.

It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Now they will tremble again - at the sound of our silence. The order is: engage the silent drive.

...the only sound they will hear is our laughter, while we sail to Havana, where the sun is warm, and so is the...comradeship.

[Today is] a great day, comrades! We sail into history!

When he reached the New World, Cortez burned his ships. As a result, his men were well motivated.

I miss the peace of fishing like when I was a boy. Forty years I've been at sea. A war at sea. A war with no battles, no monuments... only casualties. I widowed her the day I married her. My wife died while I was at sea, you know.

Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please.

Anatoli, you're afraid of our fleet. Well, you should be. Personally, I'd give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?

Well, Sir, I was just thinking that perhaps there's another possibility we might consider. Ramius might be trying to defect.