Who can ever forget this iconic feminist baseball film or it’s timeless ensemble cast? As the film turns 33 today, we’re looking back on its 20 best quotes below:

1.

Jimmy Dugan: You know, I really thought you were a ballplayer.

Dottie Hinson: Well, you were wrong.

Jimmy Dugan: Was I?

Dottie Hinson: Yeah. It is only a game, Jimmy. It’s only a game, and, and, I don’t need this. I have Bob; I don’t need this. At all.

Jimmy Dugan: I, I gave away five years at the end my career, drinking. Five years. And now there isn’t anything I wouldn’t give to get back any one day of it.

Dottie Hinson: Well, we’re different.

Jimmy Dugan: This is chickenshit, Dottie, if you want to go back to Oregon and make a hundred babies, great, I’m in no position to tell anyone how to live. But sneaking out like this, quitting, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life. Baseball is what gets inside you. It’s what lights you up, you can’t deny that.

Dottie Hinson: It just got too hard.

Jimmy Dugan: It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes it great.

2.

Mae Mordabito: Evelyn. Evelyn. I’m sorry but I have to kill your son.

Doris Murphy: Mae! Mae! Don’t use my bat! Use Marla’s. It’s heavier.

3.

Mae Mordabito: What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops., my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right?

Doris Murphy: You think there are men in this country who ain’t seen your bosoms?

4.

5.

Ira Lowenstein: Great game, Jimmy. I especially liked that move in the seventh inning when you scratched your balls for an hour.

Jimmy Dugan: Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right.

6.

Dottie Hinson: What did you do to her?

Doris Murphy: Nothin’, we just gave her a dress.

Mae Mordabito: And a lotta liquor!

7.

Hey cowgirls, see the grass? Don’t eat it.

– Ernie Capadino

8.

Batter up, hear that call. The time has come for one and all… to play ball. We’re the members of the All American League. We come from cities near and far. We’ve got Canadians, Irish ones, & Swedes. We’re all for one, we’re one for all, we’re all American. Each girl stands, her head so proudly high. Her motto “Do or Die”. She’s not the one to use or need an alibi. Our chaperones are not too soft; they’re not too tough. Our managers are on the ball. We’ve got a President who really knows his stuff. We’re all for one, we’re one for all, we’re all American.

– Rockford Peaches

9.

I know my girl ain’t so pretty as these girls, but that’s my fault. I raised her like I would a boy. I didn’t know any better. She loves to play. Don’t make my little girl suffer because I messed up raising her. Please.

– Dave Hooch

10.

Jimmy Dugan: It was made very clear to me what I’m supposed to do here. I smile, wave my little hat… I did that, so when do I get paid?

Ira Lowenstein: Now, Jimmy, you have some pretty good ballplayers here. You ought to give them a little bit of your…

Jimmy Dugan: Ballplayers. I don’t have ballplayers, I’ve got girls. Girls are what you sleep with after the game, not, not what you coach during the game.

Ira Lowenstein: If we paid you a little bit more, Jimmy, do you think you could be just a little more disgusting?

Jimmy Dugan: Well, I could certainly use the money.

11.

Dottie Hinson: You ever been married?

Jimmy Dugan: Well, let me think… yeah, twice.

Dottie Hinson: Any children?

Jimmy Dugan: One of them was, yeah.

12.

This is what it’s going to be like in the factories, too, I suppose, isn’t it? “The men are back, Rosie, turn in your rivets.” We told them it was their patriotic duty to get out of the kitchen and go to work; and now, when the men come back, we’ll send them back to the kitchen.

– Ira Lowenstein

13.

Uh, Lord, hallowed be Thy name. May our feet be swift; may our bats be mighty; may our balls… be plentiful. Lord, I’d just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is – she kept calling Your name. And God, these are good girls, and they work hard. Just help them see it all the way through. Okay, that’s it.

– Jimmy Dugan

14.

You ever hear Dad introduce us to people? “This is our daughter Dottie, and this is our other daughter, Dottie’s sister.” Should’ve just had you and bought a dog!

– Kit Keller

15.

Walter Harvey: It’s funny to you. Your drinking is funny. You’re a young man, Jimmy: you still could be playing, if you just would’ve laid off the booze.

Jimmy Dugan: Well, it’s not exactly like that… I hurt my knee.

Walter Harvey: You fell out of a hotel. That’s how you hurt it.

Jimmy Dugan: Well, there was a fire.

Walter Harvey: Which you started, which I had to pay for.

Jimmy Dugan: Well, now, I was going to send you a thank-you card, Mr. Harvey, but I wasn’t allowed anything sharp to write with.

16.

Doris Murphy: Hey Mae, Mae, your date’s here.

Mae Mordabito: How do I look?

Doris Murphy: Where’d you get that dress?

Mae Mordabito: Borrowed it.

Doris Murphy: It don’t fit you, Mae, it’s too tight.

Mae Mordabito: I don’t plan on wearing it that long.

Doris Murphy: Ohh. I don’t know why you get dressed at all.

17.

Older Dottie: You haven’t changed one bit.

Older Ellen Sue: Dottie, I married a plastic surgeon.

18.

Well, bite my butt and call me an apple! She nearly took her head off!

– Stadium announcer

19.

Charm School assistant: What do you suggest?

Charm School instructor: A lot of night games.

20.

Dottie Hinson: I’ll tell you what I’ll miss. Well, I’ll miss the girls. I’ll miss you, Kit.

Kit Keller: Me?

Dottie Hinson: Yeah, how many sisters do you think I have?