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“You know, the best part of the best drug in the world isn't the high. It's the moment just before you take it. The dice are dancing on the table. Between now and the time they stop, that's the greatest high in the world.”
— Walter Abrams, Two for the Money
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Drugs
“We do not train to be merciful here. Mercy is for the weak. Here, in the streets, in competition: A man confronts you, he is the enemy. An enemy deserves no mercy.”
— John Kreese, The Karate Kid
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Enemy, Mercy
“Has anyone ever told you that you look like a penis with that little hat on?”
— Jimmy Dugan, A League of their Own
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, penis
“This son of a bitch is throwing a two-hit shutout. He's shaking me off. You believe that shit? Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well.”
— Crash Davis, Bull Durham
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Son of a Bitch, Shit
“Going in one more round when you don't think you can—that's what makes all the difference in your life.”
— Robert "Rocky" Balboa, Rocky IV
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, perseverance
“Interviewer: Do you hate Rocky?

Clubber Lang: No, I don't hate Balboa. I pity the fool, and I will destroy any man who tries to take what I got!”
— Clubber Lang, Rocky III
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, I Pity the Fool
“I just got one thing to say...to my wife at home: Yo, Adrian! I DID IT!”
— Robert "Rocky" Balboa, Rocky II
Tagged: Best Sports Movies
“Harry Doyle: One hit, that's all we got, one goddamn hit?

Assistant: You can't say 'goddamn' on the air.

Harry Doyle: Don't worry, nobody is listening anyway.”
— Harry Doyle, Major League
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Goddamn
“Iris Gaines: You know, I believe we have two lives.

Roy Hobbs: How... what do you mean?

Iris Gaines: The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.”
— Iris Gaines, The Natural
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Wisdom
“I want you guys to take a good look at yourselves and feel proud. We made it here. We're here. What I've learned from you is that really one of the most important things in life is showing up. I'm blown away by your ability to show up through everything that's gone on. The league never wanted you to play this game, but you showed up. But, uh, we only have eight players so, we can't play.”
— Conor O'Neill, Hardball
Tagged: Best Sports Movies
“First, it's a Saturday night thing when you feel cool like a gangster or a rock star—just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chippie, a small habit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays... then Thursdays... then it's got you. Every wise-ass punk on the block says it won't happen to them, but it does.”
— Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Heroin Addiction, Gangster, Rock Star
“By the time I was ten, playing baseball got to be like eating vegetables or taking out the garbage. So when I was 14, I started to refuse. Could you believe that? An American boy refusing to play catch with his father.”
— Ray Kinsella, Field of Dreams
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, baseball
“I ain't draft dodging. I ain't burning no flag. I ain't running to Canada. I'm staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I've been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain't going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I'll die right here, right now, fightin' you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Viet Cong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won't even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won't even stand up for my right here at home.”
— Muhammad Ali / Cassius Clay, Ali
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, racism, Viet Cong, Justice, America
“You gotta have two things to win. You gotta have brains and you gotta have balls. Now, you got too much of one and not enough of the other.”
— Fast Eddie Felson, The Color of Money
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Brains, balls, Winning
“I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure.”
— Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, God, Divine Purpose
“You know, I got a hunch, fat man. I got a hunch it's me from here on in. One ball, corner pocket. I mean, that ever happen to you? You know, all of a sudden you feel like you can't miss? 'Cause I dreamed about this game, fat man. I dreamed about this game every night on the road. Five ball. You know, this is my table, man. I own it.”
— Eddie Felson, The Hustler
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Fat shaming, Confidence
“What is it you said to the kid? It ain't about how hard you're hit, it's about how you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. Get up!”
— Robert "Rocky" Balboa Sr., Rocky Balboa
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, perseverance
“When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Mistakes
“That's the movie you wanted to see? There wasn't even any good sex in it. Had to read the whole fuckin' movie. Fuckin' subtitled. Some guy from a road crew recommended it to you, a fuckin' subtitled movie?”
— Charlene Fleming, The Fighter
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Fuckin
“Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.”
— Nelson Mandela, Invictus
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, forgiveness
“Adrian: Why do you wanna fight?

Rocky: Because I can't sing or dance.”
— Adrianna "Adrian" Pennino, Rocky
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Fight, sing, dance
“The only place I get hurt is out there. The world don't give a shit about me.”
— Randy "Ram" Robinson, The Wrestler
Tagged: hurt, Pain, Isolation, Shit
“Jake La Motta: Did you fuck my wife?

Joey LaMotta: What?

Jake La Motta: Did you fuck my wife?

Joey LaMotta: [pauses] How do you ask me that? I'm your brother and you ask me that? Where do you get your balls big enough to ask me that?

Jake La Motta: You're very smart, Joey. You're giving me a lot of answers, but you ain't giving me the right answer. I'm gonna ask you again: did you or did you not?

Joey LaMotta: I'm not gonna answer that. It's stupid. It's a sick question and you're a sick fuck and I'm not that sick that I'm gonna answer it. I'm leaving, If Nora calls tell her I went home. I'm not staying in this nuthouse with you. You're a sick bastard, I feel sorry for you, I really do. You know what you should do? Try a little more fucking and a little less eating, so you won't have problems upstairs in the bedroom and you pick on me and everybody else. You understand me, you fucking wacko? You're cracking up! Fucking screwball, ya!”
— Jake Lamotta, Raging Bull
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Screwball, Fucking, Jealousy
“451: People say one thing and do the other. It's just all bullshit. Don't waste words. Just best not to say anything.

Kyle: Yeah, OK, shut up.”
— 451, In Hell
Tagged: Prison Movies, Bullshit, shut up
“Paul Crewe: Nate, if you're thinking about winning this game, then you're as crazy as he is.

Nate Scarboro: Well, maybe so. But you spend fourteen years in this tank, you begin to understand that you've only got two things left they can't sweat out of you or beat out of you... Your balls. And you better hang onto them, because they're about the only thing you're gonna have when you get out of here.”
— Paul Crewe, The Longest Yard
Tagged: Prison Movies, balls
“William 'Billy Bedlam' Bedford: You lost your mind?

Cyrus Grissom: According to my last psych evaluation, yes.”
— Cyrus Grissom, Con Air
Tagged: Prison Movies, psych eval
“Under all the swastikas, he's a real prick.”
— John Lyshitski, Let's Go to Prison
Tagged: Prison Movies, Swastikas, Nazis, Prick
“Malamadre: So the guards beat you up your first day. You must have pissed them off.

Juan Oliver: I do my best.”
— Daniel Monzón, Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Celda 211
Tagged: Prison Movies, Pissed Off
“Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.”
— Earl Copen, Animal Factory
Tagged: Prison Movies, Hell, Heaven
“I ain't gettin' mad, Joker. I been mad all my natural life.”
— Noah Cullen, The Defiant Ones
Tagged: Prison Movies, Joker, Mad

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