Memorable Quotes from Leon Rippy
3 quotesBuilding Leadership Through Team Sports
Sean
Listen, Paul, we convince a kid to stop gangbanging, all we do is create a void. And unless we fill that void with somethin better, we're gonna lose em. According to the teaching staff, the kids here have trouble being punctual, responding to authority, being a member of a team, and accepting criticism. What one activity can improve em on all these areas?
Paul Higa
You wanna start a football team?
Sean
Exactly.
Paul
Sean, look at them. Our whole system's designed to prevent them from making contact.
Sean
Our whole system right now is a joke.
Ted Dexter
Malcolm, you're not buying into this, are you?
Malcolm
Seventy-five percent of our kids end up back in jail. How much worse could it be?
Ted
Well, who are they gonna play against?
Sean
I'll find em high school teams to play.
Ted
Wait a minute, you wanna take em out of the camp? You really think you can trust these kids?
Sean
Not now, no. But if they were a football team...
Ted
Oh, come on, Sean. It's-it's impossible.
Sean
Then let's try the impossible, because the possible just ain't workin'. Paul, we've got to give these kids a target and we've gotta fill that void. You played football, didn't you?
Paul
Defensive end. Second Team All League. All right, we'll give it a try. But your neck is way out on this.
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Fear, Perception, and Political Commentary in Dialogue
Braxton Belyeu
I'm no more afraid of the Grim Reaper than I am of a Presbyterian on Mother's Day.
Constance Harraway
You work so hard not to be seen as a sex object. Before long, you're not seen at all.
Zack
73% of all serial killers vote Republican.
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Decision-making Amidst Moral Dilemmas
Woodword
We take him out to lose. He shot a man, for God's sake.
Colonel Perry
Don't tell me what to do. Right now I need every soldier I've got. We'll go after them.
Woodward
Colonel Perry, we've killed an innocent man.
Colonel Perry
What you suggest we do, Woodward?
Woodward
We have a moral obligation to tell the truth about this.
Colonel Perry
I thought you are more clever than that, Woodward. The program is off the shelf. Do you really think the people from Pentagon will allow the regeneration of dead soldiers? American soldiers?
Woodward
I don't think I can be part of this any more.
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