Wilford Brimley Quotes

Pop Fisher My ma urged me to get out of this game. When I was a kid, she pleaded with me. And I meant to, you know what I mean? But she died.

Red Blow Tough.

Pop Fisher Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!

Glenn Close This is Cameron's first nomination and he's in extremely good company. Tonight he joins fellow best actor nominee Paul Newman for "Coot", Clint Eastwood for "Codger", Michael Douglas for "Primary Urges" and Steven Seagal for "Snowball in Hell".

Cameron Maybe I should thank someone else. Someone who's really been there, someone who taught me a lot, about poetry and Shakespeare, and just, y'know, stayin awake, man. Someone who's just an overall great guy, a great teacher... to Howard Brackett from Greenleaf, Indiana! And he's gay. Y'know, I've been thinking alot about this night, and I've decided to dedicate this whole night to a great, gay teacher. Mr. Brackett, WE WON!

Frank Brackett He used to mow our lawn. Never again.

Peter Malloy A teacher in trouble. A town under siege. A journey to the heartland. Stay tuned.

Berniece I need that wedding. I need some beauty and some music and some placecards before I die. It's like heroin.

Reporter Should gays be allowed to handle fresh produce?

Sonja I don't have time. I promised to do that photo shoot this afternoon. I have to shower and vomit!

Ava Blazer You can't be gay! You're a tramp!

Blair You see, what we're talkin about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates em perfectly. When this thing attacked our dogs it tried to digest them... absorb them, and in the process shape its own cells to imitate them. This for instance. That's not dog. It's imitation. We got to it before it had time to finish.

Norris Finish what?

Blair Finish imitating these dogs.

Howard I may sue!

Frank Brackett Get Johnny Cochrane, not that woman!

Pop Fisher I'd have walked away from baseball and I'd have bought a farm.

Roy Hobbs Nothing like a farm. Nothing like being around animals, fixing things. There's nothing like being in the field with the corn and the winter wheat. The greenest stuff you ever saw.

Pop Fisher You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer.

Roy Hobbs My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.

Pop Fisher Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.

Conn MacCleary You're going to be the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not get away with it.

Conn MacCleary Remember, in out, like a duck mating.

Gen. Scott Watson So listen to this, George. Lyman four-putts. Four-putts, mind you. I thought he'd have a stroke. And I'd have claimed it if he had.

Harold Smith Guard, protect and cherish your land, for there is no afterlife for a place that started out as Heaven. Charles M. Russell, Montana, 1926.

MacReady How you doin', old boy?

Blair I don't know who to trust.

MacReady I know what you mean, Blair. Trust's a tough thing to come by these days. Tell you what - why don't you just trust in the Lord?

Howard He may be under the influence of something. He may have joined a cult!

Frank Brackett That little zombie.

Norwegian passenger with rifle Se til helvete og kom dere vekk. Det er ikke en bikkje. Det er en slags ting! Det imiterer en bikkje. Det er ikke virkelig! Kom dere vekk, idioter! (Get the hell away. That's not a dog. It's some kind of thing! It's imitating a dog. It's not real! Get away, idiots!)

Clark I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.

Garry I know you gentlemen have been through a lot. But when you find the time... I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING COUCH!

Norris This is just what it wants! To pit us against each other!

Windows Are you guys gonna listen to Garry?! Are you gonna let him give the orders?! I mean, he can be one of those things!

Blair Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute, man. I want to come back inside, don't you understand? I'm alright, I'm much better. And I won't harm anybody. Now you gotta let me come back inside.

Doctor Mr. Selwyn?

Art Selwyn That's me, Doctor! How is she?

Doctor She's fine, considering her age. And the fact that she's six weeks pregnant.

Ben Luckett Why you smutty ol devil.

Doctor Very impressive, Mr. Selwyn. This one's definitely going in the books.

James J. Wells Tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna sit right here and talk about it. Now if you get tired of talking here, Mr. Marshal Elving Patrick there will hand you one of them subpoenas he's got stuck down in his pocket and we'll go downstairs and talk in front of the grand jury... Elliot? Jim?... Fine. All right, Elving, hand whichever one of these fellas you like a subpoena and we'll go on downstairs and talk in front of the grand jury.

Quinn Gallagher's a government witness.

James A. Wells Wonderful thing, a subpoena.

Pop Fisher Hobbs. I'm sending you down Hobbs, Class B ball. Tomorrow you go to the Great Lakes Association.

Roy Hobbs All right. You make the rules.

Pop Fisher That's right, that's right and you ain't been playing by em. Don't you remember signing a contract!

Roy Hobbs I remember signing a contract, to play ball not to be put to sleep by some two bit carney hypnotist! I won't do that Pop! I can't.

Berniece Howard, we want you to know: you're our son, and we'll always love you, gay, straight, red, green, if you rob a bank, if you kill someone.

Frank Brackett If you get drunk, climb a clock tower, and take out the town.

Berniece As long as you get married.

Uncle Douvee We'll fix him up good. Put bandage on, it no hurt. Be strong, my boy.

Boudreaux Douvee, I've got some people after me.

Uncle Douvee I know. I can smell them.

Boudreaux You've still got a .30-06, the one I gave you for you birthday?

Uncle Douvee No. A gator ate it. But, uh, I've still got you shotgun.

Pop Fisher People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!

Blair Nobody gets in and out of here! NOBODY! You guys think I'M crazy! Well, that's fine! Most of ya don't know what's goin on around here, but I'm damn well sure SOME of you do!

MacReady Christ!

Childs He got most of the chopper and the tractor. And he's killed the rest of the dogs.

MacReady Garry, wait a minute, wait a minute. Now, Childs, go around to the map room door. Talk to him.

Childs Yeah.

MacReady Norris, get a table from the lab.

Blair D'ya think that thing wanted to be an animal?! No dogs make it a thousand miles through the cold! No, you don't understand! That thing wanted to be US! If a cell gets out, it could imitate everything on the FACE OF THE EARTH! AND NOTHING CAN STOP IT!

Childs Okay, Blair. Come on, man, you don't wanna hurt anybody.

Blair I'LL KILL YOU!

Pop Fisher Batting practice tomorrow, be there!

Roy Hobbs I have been. Every day.

Pop Fisher I wanted to win that pennant worse than I wanted any goddamned thing in my life. You'd think I could just this once, wouldn't you? I didn't care nothing about the Series. Win or lose, I would have been satisfied.

Art Selwyn Joe loved the beach.

Ben Luckett He didn't give a shit about the beach. It was them smooth legged girls in them dental floss bikinis, that's what he liked.