How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Airplane!.
Quote #7
DR. RUMACK: Sometime when the crew is up against it and breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they've got and win just one for the Zipper.
Dr. Rumack's inspiring pep talk is a play on a young Ronald Reagan's speech in his classic film Knute Rockne, All American. It just so happened that "the Gipper," as Reagan was often called, would become President of the United States a few months after Airplane!'s release.