- I'm not doing this for myself, believe me. No. I'm doing this for those dear, sweet old ladies.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yes, I am.

11 seconds sound clip from the Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:45:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Forget it!

- Why should I? I was a good hand at teaching young crews.

- 'Twas no accident, by thunder, I was known as the finest pirate ever to sail the Spanish Main. Or the Portugee Main either, for that matter.

- Now you'll be asking yourself with some impatience, 'Why was this?' I'll tell you why.

- I train my men to win! Win! Always win! By fair means or foul, by soft words and hard deeds, by treachery, by cunning, by malpractice, but always win.

- You mean you have the unmitigated brass to ask me to let you train my team?

- I'm not doing this for myself, believe me. No. I'm doing this for those dear, sweet old ladies.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yes, I am.

- The little lavender-scented ladies, I like to call them...

- That stagger up their rickety staircases of the night their lanterns held aloft when the lights got too bad for knitting by...

- And say to one another, 'Ellen, where is our ship?' Of which Blackbeard is captain. 'And which may never now come to port at all.'

- Never mind the snow job!

[...]

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