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The Challenge of Breaking Bad Habits
Coach Morris Buttermaker
This quitting thing, it's a hard habit to break once you start.
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Confrontation Over Team Diversity and Gender
Tanner
Jews, spics, niggers, and now a girl?
Amanda
Grab a bat, punk!
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Handling Challenges with Confidence
Buttermaker
What if he tries something?
Amanda
I'll handle it.
Buttermaker
], 11 years old.
[[Rolling Stones]
Amanda
I know an 11-year-old girl who is already on the pill.
Buttermaker
Don't ever say that word again.
Amanda
Jesus! Just who in the heck you think you are?
Buttermaker
The goddamned manager, that's who!
Amanda
Big wow!
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Growing Up and Changing Interests in Sports
Buttermaker
Those boys aren't very rough. You won't get hurt.
Amanda
That's got nothing to do with it. I'm almost 12 and I'll... I'll be getting a bra soon. Well, maybe in a year or so. I can't be playing all dumb baseball.
[pause, looks at her chest]
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Confronting Challenges Beyond Race
Buttermaker
There was nothing easy about those fly balls, Ahmad. They were tough chances! The sun was in your eyes!
[trying to console Ahmad after his errors in the first loss]
Ahmad
Don't give me none of your honky bullshit, Buttermaker. I know they were easy.
Buttermaker
Let's not bring race into this, Ahmad. We got enough problems as it is.
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Teamwork Leads to Success
Taglines
Together They Make It Happen!
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League Rules on Equipment Compliance
Buttermaker
There is one thing I forgot to tell you guys. It's a league rule; cups and supporters. Gotta be worn at all times. Either you wear em and you play, or you don't wear em and you don't play.
[tosses the jockstraps to his players]
Tanner
Can we stop this, already? We've got another hour of practice.
Jose
¡Yo no me voy a poner esto! ¡Esto duele! (I'm not wearing this! It hurts!)
[puts his back in the box]
Buttermaker
What? What are you saying?
Ogilvie
I've been brushing up on my Spanish as of lately, and I think he is saying something about, you know, his being Catholic, and it's a sin.
Buttermaker
Oh, for Christ's sake.
[hands it back to Jose]
Tanner
I know what it is.
Engelberg
This is a free country. Let's be democratic, and take a vote.
Buttermaker
There'll be no voting, Engelberg.
Toby
What about Amanda?
Amanda
You ain't strappin one of these things on me.
Engelberg
Well, if she don't wear one, I don't wear one!
[throws his at Buttermaker; the rest of his teammates agree with him]
Tanner
Anyway, it's too small.
Kelly
If she doesn't wear one, neither do I.
Amanda
What are you doing here?
Kelly
Some asshole changed my mind.
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Amanda's Defiance Against Buttermaker's Authority
Amanda Whurlizer
Look, Buttermaker, you're not my father and I'll not move an inch to play baseball for you any more. So why don't you get back into that sardine can of yours and go, go vacuum the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? I've got business to take care of. You're blocking my customers with your car.
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Building Success Takes Time
Buttermaker
Come on, fellas. Rome wasn't built in a day.
[after the Bears lose 18-0]
Ogilvie
Yeah, it took several hundred years.
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Team Dynamics and Racial Tensions Explored
Tanner
All we got on this team are a buncha Jews, spics, niggers, pansies, and a booger-eatin moron!
Ogilvie
Tanner, I think you need to be reminded from time to time that you are one of the few people on this team who is not a Jew, spic, nigger, pansy or booger-eating moron. So you'd better cool it or we may be disposed to beat the crap out of you.
Tanner
Oh, yeah?
Ogilvie
Yeah.
[they both fight]
Buttermaker
Cut it out. Now guys, somebody’s gotta pay for this windshield, and I think, Engelberg, it's gonna be your father.
[stops both of them]
Engelberg
Bullshit.
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Accusations and Denials in a Tense Moment
Turner
You tried to hit him, didn't you?
Joey
No, it just got away.
Turner
DON'T LIE TO ME!!! You tried to hit him.
[slaps him]
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Anticipation in The Bad News Bears
Taglines
The coach is waiting for his next beer. The pitcher is waiting for her first bra. The team is waiting for a miracle. Consider the possibilities.
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Confrontation in a Ballet Class
Ballet Instructor
Young man, I am teaching a class here.
Tanner
Well, you ain't doing a very good job of it; no one here can dance for bat turds.
Amanda
Tanner, get the hell outta here! I will kill you! Get out! Go!
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Unexpected Altercation with Older Students
Buttermaker
What the hell happened to you, Tanner?
[looks at Tanner's black eye]
Engelberg
Tanner got into a fight.
Buttermaker
Who with?
Engelberg
The 7th Grade.
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Unresolved Feelings About Relationships and Parenting
Buttermaker
Well, your mother and I didn't got along too well, Amanda. I liked her very much, though. I still do. As a matter of fact I'm just not the marrying kind. But I guess I handled it badly, huh?
Amanda
You handled it like shit!
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Coming of Age in Comedy
Taglines
A classic comedy about growing up!
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Swimming Plans and Unexpected Consequences
Engelberg
When we're through, can we go swimming?
Buttermaker
No! Don't jump in, Engelberg! You'll flood the valley!
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Consequences of Breaking the Rules
Engelberg
You're not supposed to have open liquor in the car. It's against the law.
Buttermaker
So is murder, Engleberg. Now put that back before you get me in real trouble.
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Debate Over Team Dynamics and Baseball Culture
Amanda
We could use a good outfielder on our team.
Kelly
Oh you call what you got a team?
Amanda
What you got against baseball anyway?
Kelly
Well the baseball you guys play is for faggots and old farts with nothing better to do with themselves.
Amanda
Well you must like those kind of guys you sure do hang around the field often enough!
Kelly
There's nice ass at the field, that's why I always hang around it.
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