The Legend of Bagger Vance Quotes

Bagger Vance I hear you lost your swing. I guess we got to go find it.

Bagger Vance Yep... Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing... Something we was born with... Something that's ours and ours alone... Something that can't be taught to you or learned... Something that got to be remembered... Over time the world can, rob us of that swing... It get buried inside us under all our would haves and could haves and should haves... Some folk even forget what their swing was like...

Rannulph I lost my swing, Adele...

Adele Really? Where'd it go?

Bagger Don't make no sense is all. Man say he don't play golf when he out here this shade of night hitting balls off in the dark where he can't even see them.

Rannulph Yep... Well, I've done things that have made less sense.

Bagger As we all have.

Bagger See, the trick is... to find your swing.

Rannulph What'd you say?

Bagger Well, you lost your swing. We got to go find it. Now it's somewhere... in the harmony... of all that is... All that was... All that will be...

Hagen Hey, I admire the way you're dealing with this match, Junuh. Fighting the way you are. It's damn noble. But no matter how good a fighter you are, just remember, I can ask they King to gold the flag for me when I putt, but he's not going to give me his crown, neither is Bobby and neither am I.

Rannulph I'm not asking for your crown, Walter. If I wanted it badly enough, I'd just take it.

Rannulph Junnuh Your daddy is out sweeping streets because he took every last dime he had, and used it to pay up every man and woman he owed and every business who worked for him, instead of declaring bankruptcy like everyone else in town, including your best friend Wilbur Charles dad, Raymond, which is why he's able to sit around all day long on his dignity! Your daddy stared adversity in the eye, Hardy. And he beat it back with a broom.

Bagger Vance Yeah, I always felt a man's grip on his club just like a man's grip on his world...

Rannulph What were you doing? I could have killed you out there.

Bagger Oh no sir, see I set myself directly in front of ya. Judgin how you were hittin them balls that's where I figure I'd be out of harms way.

Taglines Some Things Can't Be Learned. They Must Be Remembered.

Rannulph Now, the question on the table is how drunk is drunk enough? And the answer is that it's all a matter of brain cells

Hardy Brain cells?

Rannulph That's right, Hardy. You see every drink of liquor you take kills a thousand brain cells. Now that doesn't much matter cos we got billions more. And first the sadness cells die so you smile real big. And then the quiet cells go so you just say everything real loud for no reason at all. That's okay, that's okay because the stupid cells go next, so everything you say is real smart. And finally, come the memory cells. These are tough sons of bitches to kill.

Taglines It Was Just A Moment Ago.

Rannulph This is getting embarrassing.

Bagger Oh no sir, this has been embarrassing for quite some time.

Bagger Vance Don't worry about hitting the ball or where it goes, just swing the club, feel the club.

Hardy I heard my dad say that you won every golf tournament there ever was in the South and how you hit a drive so long that they made you stop playing for 20 minutes just to measure it for a record... and how you used to swing righty, but you were in the woods once by this tree so there was no room to swing righty... so you borrowed somebody's lefty club and hit the ball six inches from the hole...

Bagger You wanna quit, Mr. Junuh? You know you can just go ahead and creep off somewhere I'll tell folk you took sick. Truth be told, ain't nobody gonna really object. In fact, they'd probably be happy as bugs in a bake shop to see you pack up and go home.

Rannulph You know I can't quit.

Bagger I know. Just makin sure you know it, too.

Hardy Confused, broken... and unable to face a return to a hero's welcome... Junuh just disappeared... Hoping to forget... and to be forgotten...