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“Irv: Hi, I'd like to register for the tryouts. Registration Official: What country? Irv: Uh... [clears throat] Jamaica. Registration Official: [smiles] What country? Irv: Jamaica. Registration Official: [stops smiling and enters the information] Huh, what do you know? A Jamaican bobsled team.”
— Lynn Siefert, Michael Goldberg, Tommy Swerdlow, Irving 'Irv' Blitzer, John Candy, imdb.com
“Winning a bobsled race is about one thing: the push-start. Now I know you dainty, little track stars think you're fast. Well, heh, let's see how fast you are when you push a six-hundred pound sled. Now a respectable start-time is five-point-seven seconds. If you speed demons can't whip off an even s…”
— Lynn Siefert, Michael Goldberg, Tommy Swerdlow, Irving 'Irv' Blitzer, John Candy, imdb.com
“All right, Derice. Let me lay out some difficulties for you. Snow: you don't have any. It's nine hundred degrees out there. Time: you don't have any. The Olympics are in three months. And me: you don't have me. As far as I'm concerned, the sport of bobsledding no longer exists. I don't want to do it…”
— Lynn Siefert, Michael Goldberg, Tommy Swerdlow, Irving 'Irv' Blitzer, John Candy, imdb.com