Either fight or surf

“You either fight or surf!” is, of course, the famous choice posed by Col. Kilgore in Apocalypse Now . In the madness of battle, Kilgore gives his soldiers a blank choice between two missions—take it to the waves or take it to the enemy. Screenwriter John Milius later revealed that the scene was inspired by a comment made by former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during the Six-Day War of…