Knute Rockne All American - Fame and Personal Connection in Youth
Bonnie Skiles Rockne: [George Gipp is visiting the Rockne home rather than attending a post-game press conference]
You're a strange person, George. Here you are at this very minute the biggest news of any boy in America. And yet you deliberately run away from all that fame and publicity. Why?
George Gipp:
Oh, I don't like people to get too close to me.
Bill Rockne - Age 5:
Nobody got close to you today, George!
Bonnie Skiles Rockne:
George, Knute and I often talk about you. We'd like for our two boys to grow up and be just like you someday.
George Gipp:
You mean to play football?
Bonnie Skiles Rockne:
No, not just that. To... to have your poise, and thoughtfulness. And your intelligence.
George Gipp:
Did, uh... Rock say that?
Bonnie Skiles Rockne:
Yes. He said those qualities are rare in a boy your age.
George Gipp:
No Bonnie, Rock's the rare one, not me. There'll be new fellas coming along year after year, a lot of em much better football players than I ever was. There'll never be but one Rockne, here at Notre Dame or anywhere else. He's given us something they don't teach in schools. Something clean and strong inside. Not just courage, but a right way of living that none of us will never forget. Um... don't tell Rock I said that Bonnie, he'd think I was an awful sap.
Bonnie Skiles Rockne:
That's funny George, he said the same thing about you. There'll never be but one Gipper, not here or anywhere else.
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Knute Rockne All American - Inspiration to Win Against the Odds
George Gipp:
Rock, someday when the team's up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, ask em to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, but I'll know about it. I'll be happy.
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Kings Row - Confronting Trauma and Identity in Adversity
Parris Mitchell:
I don't know if you can take it, Drake.
Drake McHugh:
Give it to me.
Parris Mitchell:
Dr. Gordon cut off your legs. I don't know if it was necessary. He was that kind, a butcher, who thought he had a special ordination to punish transgressors. With you he had a double incentive because of Louise. Heaven knows what else. The caverns of the human mind are full of strange shadows, but none of that matters. The point is he wanted to destroy you, oh, not literally. He wanted to destroy the Drake McHugh you were. He wanted to see you turn into a life-long cripple, mentally as well as physically. That's all there is, Drake. Now, if you turn your face to that wall...
Drake McHugh: [after a long pause, he chuckles]
That's a hot one, isn't it? Where did Gordon think I lived, in my legs? Did he think those things were Drake McHugh? Spout that poetry again, Parris. I never was any good at poetry. What was it you wanted, honey? To build a house? We'll move into it in broad daylight. And we'll invite the folks in, too. For Pete's sake, let's give a party. I feel swell.
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Kings Row - Anticipating Consequences in a Challenging Situation
Parris Mitchell:
Stick your chin out, Drake.
Drake McHugh:
Why?
Parris Mitchell:
You're gonna get the worst wallop you ever had.
Drake McHugh:
Yeah? Who's gonna do it?
Parris Mitchell:
I am.
Drake McHugh:
Start swingin'.
Parris Mitchell:
It's something about you and Louise Gordon and her father.
Randy Monaghan: [interrupting]
Parris!
Parris Mitchell:
She was here today, Louise was. She wanted to tell you and I wouldn't let her.
Randy Monaghan:
Parris, you can't. You said yourself...
Parris Mitchell:
I've just come from the Gordons. I've sent Louise out to tell anyone she pleases. But saying it to you I've saved for myself.
Randy Monaghan: [begging]
I won't let you Parris, please, if you have any heart.
Parris Mitchell:
I'm not your friend now, you're not mine. I'm your doctor. And you're my patient. It's as if I'd taken you in the operating room and I had the scalpel in my hand which may make you - or destroy you.
Drake McHugh:
What's this all about, kid?
Parris Mitchell:
My grandmother used to say, Some people grow up and some people just grow older. I guess it's time we found out about us, you and me. Whether I'm a doctor, and whether you're a man. You know the kind of man I mean, Drake.
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Kings Row - A Young Couple's Dream of Possibility
Drake McHugh:
Say... No, I guess, we couldn't....That land down by the creek you're so crazy about.
Randy Monaghan:
Oh, I don't know why we couldn't. You've got brains. Of course, you'd have to tell me everything to do, I'm only a woman.
Drake McHugh:
Do you think we should try it?
Randy Monaghan:
You're the boss. Oh, let's, Drake. We can do anything together. We're just a young couple starting out. Others have started on borrowed money.
Drake McHugh:
Wouldn't old Parris be surprised if he came home and found us all set up in business? His money doubled or maybe tripled.
Randy Monaghan:
Hey, go easy.
Drake McHugh:
He wouldn't be ashamed of me then, would he?...He'd be proud of me, wouldn't he, Randy?...He'd be doggone proud of me, wouldn't he?
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Kings Row - A Promise of Love and Commitment
Randy Monaghan:
I didn't ask to come into your life, did I?...All right, but then you owe me something. You owe me yourself...I want you to trust yourself entirely to me for a while, until you're up and around.
Drake McHugh:
I can't ever be up and around.
Randy Monaghan:
What has happened is terrible, but you're alive....You're alive and I love you. We're going to do that, but I'd made up my mind about it a long time before this happened. Then after you got hurt, I just had to figure out how, that was all. Remember once you said something about marrying me? Well, I got mad because I guess I'd been a little hurt. I knew you'd never thought about it until just then. Then I shouldn't be blaming you even that much. You never thought about much of anything in those days until you had to. Then, later on, you came down here. Remember the morning you came to ask Pa to help you get a job? Well, I made up my mind that day that I'd marry you, as soon as the right time came around. I guess I was convinced inside by then that you did wanna marry me. I knew I wanted to marry you...So, now the right time has come. We'll get married, and then we'll work out some way what we'll do afterwards.
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Kings Row - The Consequences of a Simple Kiss
Drake McHugh:
What's the harm in a little kiss?
Randy Monaghan:
A little kiss? Suppose we find out?
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Kings Row - Search for Identity and Wholeness
Drake McHugh: [after awaking to find his feet have been amputated]
Randy, Randy - Where's the rest of me...?
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