Yeah, we'd be crazy to use you where you don't have the most value.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Greatest (1977) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:00:42.480 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- If we draft a chemistry professor, we don't put him into a combat infantry unit with a rifle in his hands.

- And we wouldn't put a rifle in your hands.

- Of course not.

- Morale is very important to us. Sports are very important for morale.

- Do you know what Sergeant Joe Lewis did in World War II?

- Yes, sir. I think he boxed exhibitions, did personal appearances and things like that.

- Right.

- Now, there are no guarantees, but you can be quite sure that's what you'll be doing after your basic training.

- Yeah, we'd be crazy to use you where you don't have the most value.

- Value for who?

- I mean, everybody knows where I stand.

- I'm against the war in Vietnam. I've said on occasions in the press, I don't think black people should go to Vietnam and fight Asian, yellow people who've never lynched us, raped us, called us niggers, deprived us of freedom, justice, equality...

- For the same white man who's not freeing us right here in America.

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