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Coach Herman Boone4 quotes
This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it son. You got aggression that's even better, you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don't get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside your mind! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Rocky Balboa4 quotes
One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time. — Rocky Balboa · 2015Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015You see this guy here staring back at you? That's your toughest opponent. Every time you get into the ring, that's who you're going against. I believe that in boxing and I do believe that in life. — Rocky Balboa · 2015You can't learn anything when you're talking. That's a fact of life. As long as you're talking, you're not listening. — Rocky Balboa · 2015Annie Savoy3 quotes
Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. — Annie Savoy · 1988The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. — Annie Savoy · 1988Well, actually, nobody on this planet ever really chooses each other. I mean, it's all a question of quantum physics, molecular attraction, and timing. Why, there are laws we don't understand that bring us together and tear us apart. It's like pheromones. You get three ants together, they can't do dick. You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral. — Annie Savoy · 1988Tony D'Amato3 quotes
On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose. — Tony D'Amato · 1999You're a goddamn quarterback! You know what that means? It's the top spot, kid. It's the guy who takes the fall. It's the guy everybody's looking at first—the leader of a team—who will support you when they understand you. Who will break their ribs and their noses and their necks for you, because they believe. 'Cause you make them believe. That's a quarterback. — Tony D'Amato · 1999Come on, if you're act like a loser, raise your hand. If you're gonna act like pussy, raise your hand. — Tony D'Amato · 1999Eric Liddell2 quotes
Jenny, I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast and when I run I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell · 1981Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way and where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within. — Eric Liddell · 1981Father Cavanaugh2 quotes
Praying is something we do in our time. The answers come in God’s time. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993Son, in 35 years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I’m not him. — Father Cavanaugh · 1993Ivan Drago2 quotes
If he dies, he dies. — Ivan Drago · 1985I must break you. — Ivan Drago · 1985Jimmy Dugan2 quotes
It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. — Jimmy Dugan · 1992Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right. — Jimmy Dugan · 1992Monica Wright2 quotes
I've loved you since I was eleven, and the shit won't go away. — Monica Wright · 2000It's a trip, you know? When you're a kid, you - you see the life you want, and it never crosses your mind that it's not gonna turn out that way. — Monica Wright · 2000Muhammad Ali2 quotes
Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch, and was in the bed before the room was dark. — Muhammad Ali · 1996Yeah, Africa's my home. Damn America and what America thinks. Yeah, I live in America; but, Africa's the home of the black man. And I was a slave 400 years ago and I'm going back home to fight among my brothers. Yeah! — Muhammad Ali · 1996The Babe2 quotes
Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong. — The Babe · 1993Let me tell you something kid. Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either cause they're too scared, or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance and you shouldn't let it go by. — The Babe · 1993Archie Graham1 quote
We just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day. — Archie Graham · 1989Benny Rodriguez1 quote
She knows exactly what she's doin'. — Benny Rodriguez · 1993Caretaker1 quote
Whatever your pleasure, I can facilitate. You need weed, you need meth—hey, you need Prozac, I'm your man. I know how you white boys always deal with that depression. I mean me personally, I don't understand what you white boys are all depressed about. Hey, you're white! Smile! — Caretaker · 2005Coach Gary Gaines1 quote
We're in the business of winning. — Coach Gary Gaines · 2004Crash Davis1 quote
I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart. — Crash Davis · 1988Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger1 quote
My whole life, people have been telling me what I could do and couldn't do. I’ve always listed to ’em, believed in what they said. I don’t wanna do that anymore. — Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger · 1993Dom Pagnotti1 quote
When making a business decision, the only color that matters, Jesus, is green. — Dom Pagnotti · 1998Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris1 quote
Boxin' is about respect. Gettin' it for yourself, and takin' it away from the other guy. — Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris · 2004Fortune1 quote
In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody except yourself. — Fortune · 1993Gloria Clemente1 quote
Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. — Gloria Clemente · 1992Ham Porter1 quote
You play ball like a girl! — Ham Porter · 1993Iris Gaines1 quote
You know, I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after that. — Iris Gaines · 1984Jake Shuttlesworth1 quote
You don't make no mistakes? You be out here shootin', but you don't miss no shots ever? Ever? People make mistakes! People veer off the path! So what? God forgives them! — Jake Shuttlesworth · 1998Joey LaMotta1 quote
If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose. — Joey LaMotta · 1980Merle1 quote
Let's win this one for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here. — Merle · 1986Mox1 quote
Now, we go out there and we half-ass it because we're scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But, we go out there and we give it absolutely everything...that's heroic. Let's be heroes! — Mox · 1999Roy Hobbs1 quote
Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for. — Roy Hobbs · 1984Shoeless Joe Jackson1 quote
If you build it, he will come. — Shoeless Joe Jackson · 1989Sidney Deane1 quote
Look man, it goes like this, you either smoke or you get smoked. And you got smoked. — Sidney Deane · 1992