Hoosiers

Coach Dale: You know, if everyone is as nice as you, country hospitality is gonna get an awful name. Myra Fleener: What a pleasant thing to say.

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Coach Dale: First of all, let's be real friendly here, okay? My name is Norm. Secondly, your coaching days are over. George: Look, mister, there's... two kinds of dumb, uh... guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and, uh, guy who does the same thing in my living room. First one don't matter, the second one you're kinda forced to deal with. Coach Dale: Translate. That some sort of threat? George: I don't know why Cletus drug your tired old bones in here, he musta owed you somethin' fierce. Fact is, mister, you start screwin' up this team, I'll personally hide-strap your ass to a pine rail and send you up the Monon Line! Coach Dale: Leave the ball, will you, George? [to himself] OK, let's see what kind of hand I've been dealt.

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Coach Dale: Strap? [to Rade] How long is he going to go on like this? Rade Butcher: I don't know. He'll come when he's ready, not before. Coach Dale: Hopefully that'll be sometime before tip-off.

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Coach Dale: [as Rade gets up to check in the first game after Merle fouls out, even though Coach Dale has benched him] Where are you going? [Rade, puzzled, looks at him] Sit down. Rade Butcher: You gotta have five out there! Coach Dale: Sit... down. Referee: You need one more, coach. Coach Dale: My team is on the floor.

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Myra Fleener: [about Jimmy] Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place. Coach Dale: Why, do you have something against this place? Myra Fleener: A man your age comes to a place like this, either he's running away from something or he has nowhere else to go. Coach Dale: What I'm doing here has nothing to do with you. Myra Fleener: Just stay away from Jimmy. I don't want him coaching in Hickory when he's fifty.

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Myra Fleener: [about Jimmy Chitwood] You know, a basketball hero around here is treated like a god, er, uh, how can he ever find out what he can really do? I don't want this to be the high point of his life. I've seen them, the real sad ones. They sit around the rest of their lives talking about the glory days when they were seventeen years old. Coach Dale: You know, most people would kill... to be treated like a god, just for a few moments.

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