Quotes

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Season 2 Quotes

"Making waves already, Mr. MacGyver?"
Dr. Jill Ludlum - The Human Factor

"30,000 watts of laser is a whole lot more than a peck on the cheek."
Dr. Jill Ludlum - The Human Factor

"I'd hate to be the one that had to do the floors around here."
MacGyver - The Human Factor

"Aw c'mon, where's your sense of adventure?"
MacGyver - The Human Factor

"Put twelve guys carrying sticks in an enclosed area and sooner or later...men will be boys."
MacGyver - The Eraser

"Linda, sweetheart, the car will go now, I suggest you go with it."
MacGyver - The Eraser

"Look, if this works, it'll keep us from gettin' caught. If it doesn't, it'll keep us from gettin' old."
MacGyver - The Eraser

"You know, for a smart guy you're not too bright, are ya?"
MacGyver - The Eraser

"I didn't think you'd go in for whipped bean curd."
MacGyver - The Eraser

"Take my advice, stay young."
Jimmy Kendall - The Eraser

"He shoots, scores, and wins!"
MacGyver - The Eraser

"Dreams are important, otherwise sleep is just eight hours of nothing."
Jimmy Kendall - The Eraser

"You don't go to people with your problems. You come to your friends."
MacGyver - Twice Stung

Joanna Remmings: "Oh, I've heard about you. You're the guy that does the whatchamacallits, you know MacGyverisms."
MacGyver: "MacGyverisms?"
Twice Stung

"Old Minnesota wisdom; if you don't wanna be touched, look downright untouchable."
MacGyver - The Wish Child

"Teenage party; what ever happened to spin the bottle?"
MacGyver - The Wish child

"If you could do what you just did, you could land this thing on the moon."
Ramon - Final Approach

"Tricks o' me trade ol' boy, tricks o' me trade!"
Jack Dalton - Jack of Lies

"So what's the deal? Papa Thornton say you can come out and play, or what?"
Jack Dalton - Jack of Lies

"Jack operates a lot on faith."
MacGyver - Jack of Lies

Sister Margaret: "What's he doing?" Pete: "I haven't got a clue, but I'm used to it."
The Road Not Taken

"Still doing it, huh? Making things out of thin air?"
Deborah - The Road Not Taken

"Well, when it comes down to me against a situation, I don't like the situation to win."
MacGyver - The Road Not Taken

"I'm good with broken down machinery; it's the only kind I've ever had."
Sister Margaret - The Road Not Taken

"They say drowning men see their lives flash before them - falling men do, too."
MacGyver - Eagles

"The only arguments I ever had with my mother were about bedtime. I finally had to let her stay up until ten."
MacGyver - Eagles

"This isn't a movie, they're using real bullets!"
MacGyver - Three for the Road

"A paperclip can be a wonderous thing. More times than I can remember, one of these has gotten me out of a tight spot."
MacGyver - Three for the Road

"A good relationship is alot like a car. If you want it to work smoothly, you gotta put alot of work into it, and have the right tools."
MacGyver - Three for the Road

"That's easy for you to say, you're not running on my knees!"
Harry - Phoenix Under Seige

"Don't be modest. Everybody knows MacGyver's MacGyver."
Victoria - Phoenix Under Seige

"It's funny how when you want time to move along, it never does - but when you're running out of time, it disappears much too soon."
MacGyver - Phoenix Under Seige

"When I was a kid, I used to have nightmares, and you used to tell me that being scared's a lot worse when you're all alone."
MacGyver - Phoenix Under Siege

"We heard an explosion, that's all! MacGyver's damn hard to kill."
Pete - Family Matter

If life in America is like this, who needs movies."
Yuri Dimitri - Soft Touch

"I think if you try hard enough and make the best of a situation, the situation won't get the best of you."
MacGyver - Birth Day

"You guys are missing out on a good deal if you kill me. See, I'm kind of an expert with just about everything."
MacGyver - Pirates

Pete: "Boy, don't you ever dust this place?" MacGyver: "Twice a year, like clockwork."
Out In The Cold

"I cannot eat 1200 beans that have been batter beyond recognition."
Pete - Out in the Cold

"Skiing's fun. Avalanches are dangerous."
MacGyver - Out in the Cold

"Don't you think six feet under is taking 'laying low' a little far?"
MacGyver - Dalton, Jack of Spies

"That's it? That's spy talk? Some science."
MacGyver - Dalton, Jack of Spies

"Thornton, MacGyver, do you remember what Mark Twain once said? 'The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.'"
Murdoc - Partners

"That lady is a top level, world class assassin named Murdoc."
Pete - Partners

"I know that look; I've never been able to figure out how your mind works, but I know when it works."
Pete - Partners

"He's got honesty the way some people have diseases... incurable."
Jack - Partners

"Egg whites are good for a lot of things; lemon merangue pie, angel food cake, and clogging up radiators."
MacGyver - Bushmaster

"Sometimes I just hate it when I'm right."
MacGyver - Bushmaster

"Birthday blues, I've seen it before. What's the meaning of life? What's the grand plan? What's to drink?"
Jack - Friends

"Just goes to show ya, a good map will always get you where you want to go." "Yeah, provided you wanna get there in the first place."
Harry & MacGyver - Friends

"For the past seven years I have done nothing but travel around the world getting shot up, locked up, blown up... and all I have to show for it are a couple of empty rolls of duct tape."
MacGyver - Friends

"When I was a kid, my grandfather used to say to me that a fella's life wasn't worth mentioning if he hadn't shared it with some folks along the way."
MacGyver giving his birthday speech - Friends

"He can fix anything. He can fix a computer with a hairpin and a piece of duct tape."
Pete - DOA: MacGyver

"What, one of her deals? That's not a favor, that's a human sacrifice!"
MacGyver - For Love Or Money

"My old high school physics and chemistry classes come in real handy sometimes. Not to mention the fact that when you're in a squeeze, necessity always seems to come through as the true mother of invention."
MacGyver - For Love or Money