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Sanka Coffie Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, it’s bobsled time! Cool Runnings!”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: rhythm, Rhyme, bobsled
“Yul Brenner: How about I beat your butt right now?

Sanka Coffie: How about I draw a line down the middle of your head so it looks like a butt?”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: Threat, butt
“What I am saying to you, is that you are the kind of club-toting, raw-meat-eating, Me-Tarzan-You-Jane-ing, big, bald bubblehead that can only count to ten if he's barefoot or wearing sandals.”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: club-toting, tarzan, sandals
“[Sanka reveals a hot water bottle nestled under his shirt]
Derice Bannock: I can't believe you're still cold, mon.

Sanka Coffie: Cold? I'm freezing my royal Rastafarian nay-nays off!”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: cold, Freezing, testicles, rastafarian
“All I'm saying, mon, is if we walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican, and is Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: Jamaican
“Yul Brenner: [the guys start climbing into the bobsled] Don't touch me!

Sanka Coffie: Hey, Baldie, get off my foot!

Yul Brenner: Don't touch me!”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: don't touch me, baldie
“Sanka Coffie: So what are we gunna name the sled?

Junior Bevill: How about 'Tallulah?'

Sanka Coffie: Tallulah! Hahaha! Tallulah! Sounds like a two-dollar hooker! Where you come up with that?

Junior Bevill: That's my mother's name.”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: tallulah, Hooker, mother, mother jokes
“Sanka Coffie: Hey! Hey! What you doin?

Derice Bannock: This is what the Swiss do to psych themselves up!

Sanka Coffie: They also make them little pocket knives, too, but I don't see you doing that!”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: Swiss, psych, pocket knives
“Sanka Coffie: So, let's talk about this billsled team.

Derice Bannock: No, bobsled team.

Sanka Coffie: Whoever. Now, about the Wheaties box. I'm gunna be on it myself, right?

Derice Bannock: No, mon, you gunna be on it with me.”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: billsled, bobsled, wheaties
“Derice Bannock: You don't see the Swiss team fighting, do you? You don't see the Swiss team drinking and carrying on and such.

Sanka Coffie: And you don't see the Swiss team smiling, neither. In fact, if one of those Swiss boys ever come across a pretty girl, he probably yell, 'eins, zwei, drei' and try to push her down some ice. [laughs]”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: Germans, Drinking, Swiss
“[Pre-race cheer]
Kids: Who's the captain of our crew? Who's a friend to me and you? Kinda nice, good-looking too! Sanka, Sanka, yay, Sanka!

Sanka Coffie: Ha ha ha! Get back to work!

Derice Bannock: Who's the big hot bag of air, who doesn't have to comb his hair? Who doesn't bathe and doesn't care, Sanka, Sanka, yay, Sanka!”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: Captain, bathe, hygiene
“Sanka Coffie: 'Nuff people say, you know they can't believe, Jamaica, we have a bobsled team. We have the one Derice...

Derice Bannock: And the one Junior...

Junior Bevill: Yu— [Yul gives him a 'don't even think about it' look] ... Sanka!

Derice Bannock: The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinters...

Sanka Coffie, Derice Bannock, Junior Bevill: Go to Olympics, fight for Jamaica!”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: olympics, bobsled, jamaica
“Yul Brenner: Say whatever it is that you want 'cause you're just like every other fool on the island. You're going nowhere, Sanka, and you're thrilled to death about it. But you see me? You see me? I'm different, 'cause I know exactly where I'm going and after I, Yul Brenner, win the Olympics and become famous I'm going to leave the island and live right down there. [Pulls out picture of Buckingham Palace]

Sanka Coffie: [laughing]

Yul Brenner: What are you laughing about? What are you laughing about?

Sanka Coffie: That's Buckingham Palace. You plan on living there, you're going to have to marry the Queen.

Junior Bevill: Yul, that's where the Queen of England lives.

Sanka Coffie: Face it, Yul Brenner you can start calling yourself Madonna but you're still going to end up in an outhouse shanty like every other dock-working nobody.

Junior Bevill: Mm, says who?

Sanka Coffie: Says me, rich boy. What do you know about it?

Junior Bevill: Well, I know my father started off in a one room hut. Now he lives in one of the biggest homes in Kingston.

Sanka Coffie: Well, he ain't your father.

Junior Bevill: He doesn't have to be. All he has to do is know what he wants and work hard for it. And if he wants it bad enough, he'll get it. Look, believe me, Sanka the more Yul Brenners we got making it in this world the better off this world will be, especially for Jamaicans. Go ahead, Yul Brenner. Go get your palace.”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: olympics, Buckingham Palace, Queen of England
“Sanka Coffie: I'm the driver.

Irv: You're not. You're the brakeman.

Sanka Coffie: You don't understand, I am Sanka Coffie, I am the best pushcart driver in all of Jamaica! I must drive! Do you dig where I'm coming from?

Irv: Yeah, I dig where you're coming from.

Sanka Coffie: Good.

Irv: Now dig where I'm coming from. I'm coming from two gold medals. I'm coming from nine world records in both the two- and four-man events. I'm coming from ten years of intense competition with the best athletes in the world.

Sanka Coffie: That's a hell of a place to be coming from!”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: jamaica, pushcart driver, gold medals, Competition
“Sanka Coffie: The key elements to a successful sled team are a steady driver, and three strong runners to push off down the ice. Ice? Ice!

Derice Bannock: Well, it's kind of a winter sport, you know.

Sanka Coffie: You mean winter, as in ice?

Derice Bannock: Possibly.

Sanka Coffie: You mean winter, as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ice?

Derice Bannock: Maybe.

Sanka Coffie: See ya!”
— Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
Tagged: Eskimos, Penguins, igloos, Winter, cold, ice
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