Jerry Maguire Quotes

Jerry I'll go back to them.

Marcee And say what? "Please remove your dick from my ass"?! I'm sorry. I'm just a little pregnant right now.

Avery Don't ever stop fucking me!

Jerry Sooner or later, we'll have to stop.

Avery Never been better. Never better! Never better! Open your eyes. If you ever want me to be with another woman with you, I would do it. I'm not interested in it. There was a time, yes, it felt normal for me. But it was a phase. A college thing. Like torn Levis or law school for you.

Jerry Maguire Bob Sugar said I don't understand what it's like to be a black man? I'm Mister black people!

Dicky Fox Look I don't have all the answers. To be honest, in life, I failed as often as I succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

Rod Now to recap, I want to stay in Arizona. I want my new contract. I like you, you're nice to my wife.

Jerry That's that's great. I'm really... happy.

Rod Are you listenin'?

Jerry Yes!

Rod This is what I'm gonna do for you: God bless you, Jerry. But this is what you gonna do for me, Jerry?

Jerry Yeah, what can I do for you, Rod? You just tell me what can I do for you?

Rod It's something very personal, a very important thing. Hell! It's a family motto. Are you ready Jerry? I wanna make sure you're ready, brother. Here it is: Show me the money. Show! Me! The! Money! Jerry, it is such a pleasure to say that! Say it with me one time, Jerry.

Jerry Show you the money.

Rod No, no. You can do better than that! I want you to say it brother with meaning! Hey, I got Bob Sugar on the other line I bet you he can say it!

Jerry Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. Show you the money.

Rod No! Not show you! Show me the money!

Jerry Show me the money!

Rod Yeah! Louder!

Jerry Show me the money!

Rod I need to feel you Jerry!

Jerry Show me the money! Show me the money!

Rod I love black people.

Jerry I love black people!

Rod Who's your motherfucker, Jerry?

Jerry You're my motherfucker! Show me the money!

Rod Uh! Congratulations, you're still my agent.

Rod Tidwell Anyone else would have left you by now, but I'm sticking with you. And if I have to ride your ass like Zorro, you're gonna show me the money.

Taglines Show me the money!

Dorothy I took advantage of you and worst of all, I'm not alone. I did this with a kid. I was just on some ride where I thought I was in love enough for both of us. I did this. And at least I can do something about it now.

Jerry Well -- I'm not the guy who's going to run. I stick.

Dorothy I don't need you to "stick.

Jerry What do you want from me? My soul?

Dorothy Why not? I deserve that much.

Jerry What if I'm just not built that way?

Dorothy I think we made a mistake here.

Jerry What if it's true? "Great at friendship bad at intimacy." I mean, come on. It's the theme of my bachelor party film --

Dorothy I know. I watched it. I sort of know it by heart.

Jerry I don't like to give up.

Dorothy Oh please. My need to make the best of things, and your need to be what, "responsible"... if one of us doesn't say something now we might lose ten years being polite about it. Why don't we call this next road trip what it is. A nice long break.

Jerry What about Ray?

Dorothy There's no question you'll be friends. Of course you'll be friends.

Jerry So this break... is a break-up.

Dorothy Come on, Jerry. You know this isn't easy for me. I mean, on the surface, you'd almost think everything was fine. See, I've got this great guy who loves my kid -- and he sure does like me a lot. I can't live that way. It's not the way I'm built.

Jerry I have a question for you, Rod: are we really friends?

Rod Why not?

Jerry I mean, because, friends can tell each other anything if we have our "friends" hats on, right?

Rod I think so.

Jerry All right. I'll tell you why you don't have your $10 million yet. Right now, you are a paycheck player. You play with your head, not your heart. In your personal life, heart. But when you get on the field, it's all about what you didn't get, who's to blame, who under threw the pass, who's got the contract you don't, who's not giving you your love. And you know what? That is not what inspires people. That is not what inspires people. Just shut up and play the game. Play it from your heart, and you know what? I will show you the quan. And that's the truth, man! That's the truth. Can you handle it? It's just a question between friends, you know? Oh, and when they call you "shrimp", I'm the one who defends you!

Rod I don't want to be friends no more.

Jerry Fine.

Rod And quit using that word, "quan", that's my word!

Jerry I'll see you in L.A.

Rod No heart... no heart? I'M ALL HEART, MOTHERFUCKER!

Jerry I started talking with Dennis Wilburn about your renegotiation.

Rod Talking. ], ], ]... I smoke all these fools. They are making the big sweet dollars. They are making the... kwan, and you are talking.

Jerry Kwan. That's your word?

Rod Yeah, man, it means love, respect, community... and the dollars too. The whole package. The kwan.

Jerry Great word. Towel?

Rod No, I air-dry.

Jerry Rod, I say this with great respect, but those players you mentioned are marquee players...

Rod Marquee?!?

Jerry Here's what I'm saying. This is a renegotiation. We want more from them, so let's show them more from us. Let's show them your pure joy of the game, let's bury the attitude a little, let's show them --

Rod You're telling me to dance.

Jerry No, I'm saying to be --

Rod Love me love me love me... put me on t.v." That's the iconography of racism, man!

Jerry Rod, I'm not a racist. I'm telling you to be the best version of you, to get back to the guy who first started playing this game. Way back when you were a kid. It wasn't just about the money, was it?...Was it?

Rod Do your job, man, don't you tell me to dance.

Jerry Fine. Fine. Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.

Rod I'm an athlete, I am not an entertainer. These are the ABC's of ME. Get it? I do not dance. Breathe! Breathe, Jerry.

Jerry I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be me. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, okay?! God. Help me! Help me, Rod. Help me help you. Help me help you. Help me help you. I'm sorry.

Rod You are hanging on by a very thin thread. And I dig that about you! No contract? I'll help me, I'll help you, help everybody! That's my man.

Jerry Hey, I'm happy to entertain you.

Rod Help me! Help me!

Jerry See you in Los Angeles.

Rod Jerry. Come on, man. See, that's the difference between us. You think we're fighting. I think we're talking. Unless you love everybody, you can't sell anybody.

Ray What's wrong, mom?

Dorothy First class is what's wrong. It used to be a better meal. Now it's a better life.

Taglines The rest of his life begins now.

Jerry Maguire I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game featuring you, while singing your own song in a new commercial, starring you, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not sleep until that happens. I'll give you fifteen minutes to call me back.

Jerry Maguire Who had I become? Just another shark in a suit? Two days later at our corporate conference in Miami, a breakthrough. Breakdown? Breakthrough. I couldn't escape one simple thought: I hated myself. No, no, no, here's what it was: I hated my place in the world. I had so much to say and no one to listen. And then it happened. It was the oddest, most unexpected thing. I began writing what they call a mission statement. Not a memo, a mission statement. You know, a suggestion for the future of our company. A night like this doesn't come along very often. I seized it. What started out as one page became twenty-five. Suddenly, I was my father's son again. I was remembering the simple pleasures of this job, how I ended up here out of law school, the way a stadium sounds when one of my players performs well on the field. The way we are meant to protect them in health and in injury. With so many clients, we had forgotten what was important.I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote and I'm not even a writer. I was remembering even the words of the original sports agent, my mentor, the late great Dickie Fox who said: The key to this business is personal relationships. Suddenly, it was all pretty clear. The answer was fewer clients. Less money. More attention. Caring for them, caring for ourselves and the games, too. Just starting our lives, really. Hey - I'll be the first to admit, what I was writing was somewhat touchy-feely. I didn't care. I have lost the ability to bullshit. It was the me I'd always wanted to be. I took it in a bag to a Copymat in the middle of the night and printed up a hundred and ten copies. Even the cover looked like ]. I entitled it The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business.'...Everybody got a copy...I was 35. I had started my life.

Jerry Can I ask you a question totally unrelated to your career?

Rod Oh, we gonna be friends now?

Jerry What do you know about dating a ]

Rod Oh I know plenty. I was raised by a single mother.

Jerry Tell me, because it's been a month, and she's about to take another job in San Diego.

Rod First, single mothers don't "date." They have been to the circus, you know what I'm saying? They have been to the puppet show and they have seen the strings. You love her?

Jerry How do I know?

Rod You know when you know. It makes you shiver, it eats at your insides. You know?

Jerry No, I don't know.

Rod Then you gotta have The Talk.

Jerry But I sure don't like that she's leaving.

Rod Well, that ain't fair to her. A single mother, that's a sacred thing, man.

Jerry The kid is amazing.

Rod No. A real man does not shoplift the pootie from a single mom.

Jerry I didn't "shoplift the pootie." We were thrown together and -- I mean it's two mutual people who -- Alright, I shoplifted the pootie.

Rod Shame on you. Shame on you.

Dorothy Maybe I am taking advantage. Am I a bad person? All I know is that I found someone who was charming and popular and not-so-nice to me -- and he died. Okay? So why should I let this guy go, when everything in my body says this one is the one.

Laurel Easy, hon, I was just looking for fun details --

Dorothy Oh, well, why didn't you say so? And oh, I don't know if you're interested in this detail, but I was just about to tell you that I love him. I love him, and I don't care what you think. I love him for the man he wants to be, and I love him for the man he almost is. I love him.

Taglines Everybody loved him... Everybody disappeared.

Jerry Well, don't worry. Don't worry. I'm not gonna do what you all think I'm gonna do, which is just flip out! But let me just, let me just say, as I ease out of the office I helped build - I'm sorry, but it's a fact! - that there is such a thing as manners, a way of treating people. These fish have manners. These fish have manners. In fact, they're coming with me. I'm starting a new company, and the fish will come with me. You can call me sentimental. The fish - they're coming with me. Okay. If anybody else wants to come with me, this moment will be the moment of something real and fun and inspiring in this God-forsaken business, and we will do it together. Who's comin with me? Who's coming with me? Who's coming with me besides Flipper here? This is embarrassing.

Dorothy I will go with you. Right now?

Rod Tidwell I got a shelf life of ten years, tops. My next contract's gotta bring me the dollars that'll last me and mine a long time. Shit, I'm out of this sport in 5 years. What's my family gonna live on? Huh?

Jerry Hello. I'm looking for my wife. Alright. If this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen. I'm not letting you get rid of me. How about that? This used to be my specialty. I was good in a living room. Send me in there, I'll do it alone. And now I just... I don't know...but our little company had a good night tonight. A very,very big night. But it wasn't complete, it wasn't nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn't share it with you. I couldn't hear your voice, or laugh about it with you. I missed my wife. We live in a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors, I love you. You complete me. And I just—

Dorothy Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at hello.

Taglines The journey is everything.