The Natural
1984
Roy Hobbs: Red, it took me sixteen years to get here. You play me, and I'll give ya the best I got. Red Blow: I believe ya.
Pop Fisher: C'mon Hobbs, knock the cover off the ball!
Roy Hobbs: I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book. Iris Gaines: And then? Roy Hobbs: And then? And then when I walked down the street people would've looked and they would've said there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game.
Pop Fisher: Batting practice tomorrow, be there! Roy Hobbs: I have been. Every day.
Roy Hobbs: I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.
Roy Hobbs: My life didn't turn out the way I expected.
Pop Fisher: You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer. Roy Hobbs: My dad wanted me to be a baseball player. Pop Fisher: Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.
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.
The Judge: I thought I could rely on your honor!
Max Mercy: You read my mind. Roy Hobbs: That takes all of two seconds.
Gus Sands: If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind. Roy Hobbs: To hit away.
Roy Hobbs : Pick me out a winner Bobby.
Roy Hobbs: Pick me out a winner Bobby.
Pop Fisher: I shoulda been a farmer.
Pop Fisher: People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!
Roy Hobbs: The only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it.
Bartholomew 'Bump' Bailey: (after failing to catch a fly ball) I lost it in the sun. Pop Fisher: (looks up at the cloudy sky) Blinding.
Pop Fisher: (to his "best" pitcher who can't throw a strike) Come on, Fowler! Throw strikes! Red Blow: Fowler's killing worms, Pop.
Pop Fisher: My ma urged me to get out of this game. When I was a kid, she pleaded with me. And I meant to, you know what I mean? But she died. Red Blow: Tough. Pop Fisher: Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
Red Blow: Pretty good food, huh? Roy Hobbs: Damn good. Red Blow: You can't spell it, but it eats pretty good, don't it?
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