7 quotes
Celebrating Academic Goals and Future Opportunities
Steff
Listen up, ladies. Brian Riley is going to USC, motherfuckers!
[to the players in the locker room]
Brian
All I have to do is maintain my fantastic 2.0 grade-point average, and everything is cool.
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Dreams and Realities: A Struggle to Break Free
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He had a dream but the dream had begun to sour...busting to break out he had to make...
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Competing with a Winning Mindset
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He plays to win
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Accountability in Team Performance
Steff
He didn't quit.
Nickerson
What did you say?
Steff
Salvucci, he didn't quit. None of us quit. I don't know. We beat those guys asses up and down that field tonight! We got nothing to be ashamed of, right? Isn't that right? Maybe the scoreboard doesn't say it, but we won that game. We held them. It was just a fluke. That's all. It's just a fluke.
Nickerson
A fluke? That pass-interference penalty was no fluke. If you had done it the way I taught you, they never would've been down there in the first place, and they never would've scored, and we would've won that game! You're just as responsible as he is.
Steff
Oh, yeah? If you would've had Rifleman hold the ball, then we would've won the game. We didn't quit. You quit!
Nickerson
Get your stuff and get the hell out of here right now.
Steff
What?
Nickerson
You heard me. You get out of here. You're through. You're off the team.
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High Stakes and Strategic Decisions
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He has everything at stake. He can't afford to lose. He's got to make all the right moves.
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Unresolved Conversations Between Characters
Nickerson
Djordjevic! I'd like to talk to you.
Steff
We got nothing to talk about.
Nickerson
Then where are you going?
Steff
Where am I going?
Nickerson
Yeah.
Steff
No place, man. I mean, uh, Shadow, he's going to West Virginia. He just found out tonight. And, Tank's going to Furman. You knew that already. And you're going to Cal Poly. And Mouse, Mouse is going to college, he's gonna play ball. Me, I'm just gonna hang out here, I don't know, ya know? Hey, Nickerson, you lied about me. You blackballed me. "Together." Remember that? "Together. Together. Together." That was all just bullshit.
Nickerson
What?
Steff
You're full of shit, man. You just sit there in your office. A scholarship here, no scholarship there. He goes. He stays. Who in the hell gave you that power? You're just a coach. You're just a high school football coach. I mean, I don't know. What, what, I don't know. You know, Nickerson, you are not God! Huh? You're just a typing teacher!
[runs a few steps; runs off]
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Winning as the Only Escape
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Tom Cruise and Craig T. Nelson Discover Winning Is the Only Way Out.
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