The 100 Best Sports Movie Characters Ever

In addition to on-the-field entertainment, the sports world brings us some of the most captivating personalities and characters off the field as well.

At this point, the sagas of Terrell Owens, LeBron James or Mark McGwire seem more like on-screen drama than real life.  

So it's no surprise that sports movies have some of the most compelling and memorable characters in cinema. Here are 100 of the best characters in sports movies ever. 

100. Jimmy Chitwood, Hoosiers

Memorable Quote(s)

Jimmy Chitwood: I got something to say.
Rollin: All right, say what you've gotta say.
Jimmy Chitwood: [to crowd] I don't know if it'll make any change, but I figured it's time for me to start playing ball.
George: [as crowd is cheering, points to Dale] I told you, once we got rid of him!
Jimmy Chitwood: But, there's just one thing... I play, Coach stays. He goes, I go.

99. Clubber Lang, Rocky III

Memorable Quote(s)

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!

Interviewer: What's your prediction for the fight?
Clubber Lang: My prediction?
Interviewer: Yes, your prediction.
[Clubber looks into camera]
Clubber Lang: Pain!

98. Jim Bowers, Little Big League

Memorable Quote(s) 

Jim Bowers: [after Billy apologizes to the team] On behalf of the entire Apache Nation, we accept this olive branch of peace.
Billy Heywood: [team laughs] Thanks, I think.

97. All the Right Moves

Memorable Quote(s)

Stef: You're full of shit, man. You just sit there in your office. A scholarship here, no scholarship there. He goes. He stays. Who in the hell gave you that power? You're just a coach. You're just a high school football coach. I mean, I don't know. What, what, I don't know.
[prepares to run off]
Stef: You know, Nickerson, you are not God! Huh? You're just a typing teacher!

96. Johnny Utah, Point Break

Memorable Quote(s)

Johnny Utah: You're sayin' the FBI's gonna pay me to learn to surf?

Johnny Utah: Vaya con dios, brah.

Johnny Utah: Wars of religion always make me laugh, because basically, you're fighting over who has the best imaginary friend.

95. Russ Tyler, D2 the Mighty Ducks

Memorable Quote(s)

Russ Tyler: Hey... Goldberg! I bet if that puck was a cheeseburger, you'd stop it! Hahaha!

Russ Tyler: That's my knuckle-puck. It's hard to be accurate, but it drives goalies crazy!

94. Jess Bhamra, Bend It Like Beckham

Memorable Quote(s)

Jess: Anyone can cook aloo gobi, but who can bend a ball like Beckham?

[explaining to Joe how she got the large burn scar on her thigh that makes her shy of wearing shorts]
Jess: I was eight. My mum was working overtime at Heathrow, and I was trying to cook beans on toast. And I jumped up to the grill to get the toast. And my trousers caught light, so my sister put me in the bath, poured cold water over me and pulled them off. And half my skin came off, too.
Joe: Sorry.
Jess: I know—it put me off beans on toast for life.

93. Mr. Larson, Happy Gilmore

Memorable Quote(s)

Mr. Larson: That's two thus far, Shooter.
Shooter McGavin: Oh, you can count. Good for you.
Mr. Larson: And you can count, on me, waiting for you in the parking lot.

92. Miss Toot, The Longest Yard

Memorable Quote(s)

Paul Crewe: [flirting with Miss Toot] My, you have lovely hair. You ever find any spiders in it?

91. Johnny Lawrence, the Karate Kid

Memorable Quote(s)

Johnny Lawrence: [to Daniel] You couldn't leave well enough alone, could you, little twerp? No, you had to push it. Well, now you're gonna pay!

Johnny Lawrence: [Johnny approaches Daniel at school, and gives him an application for the All-Valley Tournament] Here. You'll need to fill this out and send it in, okay? Just so they'll know where to claim the body.
Daniel: Let me ask you something... We both know you can stomp me, so why rub it in?
Johnny Lawrence: [shrugs] Maybe I like to.

90. Ray Boyd, Jerry Maguire

Memorable Quote(s)

Ray: D'you know that the human head weighs eight pounds?
Jerry: Did you know that Troy Aikman, in only six years, has passed for 16,303 yards?
Ray: D'you know that bees and dogs can smell fear?
Jerry: Did you know that the career record for hits is 4,256 by Pete Rose who is NOT in the Hall of Fame?
Ray: D'you know that my next-door neighbor has three rabbits?
Jerry: I...I can't compete with that!

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89. Heather and Dawn, The Replacements

Memorable Quote(s)

Heather: Is lap dancing a style?
 
Dawn: Oh my God. I forgot to tell you something.
[long pause, during which Dawn stares into space]
Heather: Oh, she always does that.

88. Coach Gary Gaines, Friday Night Lights

Memorable Quote(s)

Coach Gaines: [halftime speech] Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down.

Coach Gaines: Gentlemen, the hopes and dreams of an entire town are riding on your shoulders. You may never matter again in your life as much as you do right now.

87. Big Ju, Remember the Titans

Memorable Quote(s)

Blue Stanton: [begins to silently sing, gradually getting louder] 'Cause baby, there ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't...
Big Ju: [slaps Blue's arm] Blue. Shut up. I don't want to see your smilin' and shufflin' and hear all your minstrel-show singing on this bus.
[looks towards other singer]
Big Ju: You too.
Bertier: Got that right.
Big Ju: [turns towards him, annoyed] You can shut up too.

86. Hal, Happy Gilmore

Memorable Quote(s)

Grandma: Can I trouble you for a glass of warm milk? It helps put me to sleep.
Hal: You can trouble me for a glass of shut the hell up. See the name tag? You're in my world now.

85. Bliss Cavendar and Iron Maven, Whip It

Memorable Quote(s)

Iron Maven: Nice jump, Evel Knievel.
Bliss Cavendar: Thanks. Maybe I'll teach it to you sometime.

84. Lucas Bly, Lucas

Memorable Quote(s)

Lucas: Either you're an athlete or you're not an athlete.

Maggie: Where are you going?
Lucas: To the dance.
Maggie: By yourself?
Lucas: Hey, I'm a party animal.

83. Amanda Whurlitzer, Bad News Bears

Memorable Quote(s)

Amanda Whurlitzer: Look, Buttermaker, you're not my father and I'll not move an inch to play baseball for you any more. So why don't you get back into that sardine can of yours and go, go vacuum the bottom of the Pacific Ocean? I've got business to take care of. You're blocking my customers with your car.

82. Paul Blake, Necessary Roughness

Memorable Quote(s)

Andre Krimm: The next time I invite you out with the guys, keep your white butt at home.
Paul Blake: But I thought you said you wanted to Paaar-teee?

Paul Blake: You're hurt. You're tired. You're bleeding. I'm gonna make you a promise. We get into that end zone, you're not gonna feel any pain.

81. Roy McAvoy and Romeo Posar, Tin Cup

Memorable Quote(s)

Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy: Look, I love Earl, okay, but... I need you.
Romeo Posar: You don't love me?
Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy: Yeah, yeah, I...I love you too, goddammit.
Romeo Posar: Well, as much as Earl?
Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy: I don't know! I mean, when I was with Earl, I was thinking of you... Yes, uh, as much as Earl. More than Earl. More than Earl.
Romeo Posar: Am I special?
Roy "Tin Cup" McAvoy: Well, if you can remove the sexual overtones and add a golf theme, then Romeo, I am your Juliet.

80. Carley Bobby, Talladega Nights

Memorable Quote(s)

Ricky Bobby: Hell, yes I am! They are winners! That is how winners talk!
Carley Bobby: If we wanted two wussies, we would have named them Dr. Quinn and Medicine Woman!

79. "Steamin" Willie Beamen, Any Given Sunday

Memorable Quote(s)

Willie Beamen: I'm trying to win, coach. I ain't trying to disrespect nobody, but winning is the only thing I respect.

78. Squeak, BASEketball

Memorable Quote(s)

Reemer: Your bed is over here.
[indicates a dog bed]
Squeak: Dude, that is so f*ckin' weak! How am I supposed to get a chick in that?
Coop: Oh, don't worry, dude. You couldn't get a chick if you had a hundred dollar bill hanging out of your zipper.
Squeak: Yeah I could.
Reemer: No. Dude, you're a little b*tch!
Squeak: I am not! I don't even know why I hang out with you guys, anyway.
Coop: 'Cause you're a piece of sh*t.
Squeak: I am not a piece of sh*t!
Reemer: Yeah, but you're a little b*tch.
Squeak: Godd*mmit! I swear if you guys rip on me 13 or 14 more times... I'm outta here!

77. Cleo Miller, Sugar & Spice

Memorable Quote(s)

Cleo Miller: Can you imagine, Conan's head on Keanu's body? Unstoppable.

Hannah: Technically I don't think I'm a virgin anymore. This past summer at church camp I think I had my first orgasm.
Kansas: Any sentence that starts with church camp ain't leading to the big O.
Cleo Miller: That's not true, Kansas. All those pictures of Jesus all sweaty and bare-chested on the cross always made me kinda hot.

Cleo Miller: The baby's got two heads!
Lucy Whitman: It's twins!
Diane: I'm not just super fat!

76. Vince Papale, Invincible

Memorable Quote(s)

Vince Papale: Excuse me, my name's spelled wrong.
Locker Room Janitor: Nothin' personal, but by the time I'm through with this, is it really gonna matter?

75. Henry Rowengartner, Rookie of the Year

Memorable Quote(s)

Larry Fisher: Hey, kid! How'd you like to play for the Chicago Cubs?
Henry Rowengartner: Great! But I gotta ask my mom first.

Henry Rowengartner: Wow, you ate that whole thing?
Frick: Why, sure! It wasn't that much.
Henry Rowengartner: That's impressive.
Frick: You should see what I can do in a bed!

74. Buck Weaver, Eight Men Out

Memorable Quote(s)

Buck Weaver: You get out there, and the stands are full and everybody's cheerin'. It's like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that, there's the players, they're yakkin' it up. The pitcher throws and you look for that pill... suddenly, there's nothing else in the ballpark but you and it.

Sometimes, when you feel right, there's a groove there, and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball. When the bat meets that ball and you feel that ball just give, you know it's going to go a long way. Damn, if you don't feel like you're going to live forever.

73. Missy Pantone, Bring It On

Memorable Quote(s)

Missy: Hey, perv.
Cliff: Gahhh!
Missy: Hand over your 15 bucks or get out of here.
Cliff: What are you doing?
Missy: Making money from guys oogling my goodies.
Cliff: Aww, I didn't need to hear that. That was an over-share.

Missy: All right, we'll just get it over with. Hey, Torrance, get over here.
[Torrance comes over]
Missy: My brother wants to check out your rack.

72. Joe Pendleton, Heaven Can Wait

Memorable Quote(s)

Joe Pendleton: I'm not supposed to be here.

Joe Pendleton: We don't care how much it costs, just how much it makes. If it costs too much, we charge a penny more. Would you pay more to save a fish who thinks?

71. Monica and Quincy, Love & Basketball

Memorable Quote(s)

Monica: What did I do?
Quincy: You forgot to be there.
Monica: I had curfew. If coach would've caught me, I wouldn't of been able to start.
Quincy: At least you got your priorities straight.
Monica: I never asked you to choose.
Quincy: You never had to.

70. Gordon Bombay, The Mighty Ducks

Memorable Quote(s)

Gordon Bombay: I hate kids. They're barely human.

Gordon Bombay: Keep swingin'. Maybe you'll give them a cold.

Gordon Bombay: Now here's the long and the short of it: I hate hockey and I don't like kids.
Peter Mark: What's this supposed to be, a pep talk?
Gordon Bombay: I'm sure this will be a real bonding experience. One day, maybe one of you will write a book about it in jail.

69. Mae Mordabito, A League of Their Own

Memorable Quote(s)

Mae Mordabito: [During the league's publicity drive] What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops, my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right?
Doris Murphy: You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms?

Mae Mordabito: Evelyn, Evelyn. I'm sorry, but I have to kill your son.
[begins to chase Stillwell with a bat]
Doris Murphy: Mae! Mae! Don't use my bat! Use Marla's. It's heavier.

68. Billy Hoyle, White Men Can't Jump

Memorable Quote(s)

Billy Hoyle: You are so stupid. It would take your mother one, no, two hours to watch 60 Minutes.

Billy Hoyle: [playing in tournament prelims-overdub] Don't let him pull that move, don't let him pull that move! That's the move! Oh, that's the move!

67. Jules Paxton, Bend It Like Beckham

Memorable Quote(s)

Jules: Mother, just because I wear trakkies and play sport does not make me a lesbian!
Jules: Anyway, being a lesbian's not that big a deal.
Paula: Oh, no of course not, sweetheart, no. I mean, I've got nothing against it. I was cheering for Martina Navratilova as much as the next person.

66. Jack Rose, Any Given Sunday

Memorable Quote(s)

Jack Rose: It's like my ex-wife. 21 different personalities and seven of them hated me.

65. Terence Mann, Field of Dreams

Memorable Quote(s)

Terence Mann: I'm going to beat you with a crowbar until you leave.
Ray Kinsella: You can't do that.
Terence Mann: There are rules here? No, there are no rules here.
[advances with crowbar]
Ray Kinsella: You're a pacifist!
Terence Mann: [stops] Sh*t.

Ray Kinsella: So what do you want?
Terence Mann: I want them to stop looking to me for answers, begging me to speak again, write again, be a leader. I want them to start thinking for themselves. I want my privacy.
Ray Kinsella: No, I mean, what do you WANT?
[Gestures to the concession stand they're in front of]
Terence Mann: Oh. Dog and a beer.

64. Cassidy, The Wrestler

Memorable Quote(s)

Cassidy: F***in' '80s man, best sh*t ever!
Randy "The Ram" Robinson: Bet'chr ass man, Guns N' Roses! Rules.
Cassidy: Crue!
Randy 'The Ram' Robinson: Yeah!
Cassidy: Def Lep!
Randy "The Ram" Robinson: Then that Cobain pussy had to come around and ruin it all.
Cassidy: Like there's something wrong with just wanting to have a good time?
Randy "The Ram" Robinson: I'll tell you somethin', I hate the f***in' '90s.
Cassidy: F***in' '90s sucked.

63. Eric Liddell, Chariots of Fire

Memorable Quote(s)

Eric Liddell: I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Eric Liddell: God made countries, God makes kings, and the rules by which they govern. And those rules say that the Sabbath is His. And I, for one, intend to keep it that way.

62. Kathy Alva, Lords of Dogtown

Memorable Quote(s)

Stacy: Skip called me ''bro''!
Kathy Alva: Skip called you ''bro''?
Stacy: Yeah, he said ''bro''!
Kathy Alva: No, he didn't.
Stacy: Yes, he did. He said ''you look hungry, bro.''
Kathy Alva: He said ''you look hungry, bro''?
Stacy: Yes, totally!
Kathy Alva: Skip Engblom doesn't call anybody ''bro''.
[laughs]

61. Daniel LaRusso, The Karate Kid

Memorable Quote(s)

Daniel: This school sucks, man. Sucks.

Daniel: Hey, you got a name?
Ali: Ali... with an I. Hey, what's your name?
Daniel: Daniel... with an L.

Daniel: You're the best friend I've ever had.
Miyagi: You're... pretty okay, too.

60. Eklund Sisters, The Fighter

Memorable Quote(s)

Phyllis "Beaver" Eklund: I heard she's into three-ways!
Sherri Ward: Yeah, with other girls!
Cathy "Pork" Eklund: Yeah, like one of them MTV Girls!
Cindy "Tar" Eklund: She acts all f***in superiah 'cuz she went to college!

Cathy "Pork" Eklund: You're a bah skank!
Cindy "Tar" Eklund: Skank!
Charlene Fleming: Don't call me a skank, or I'll rip the nasty hair right outta ya f***in head!

59. Walker and Texas Ranger, Talladega Nights

Memorable Quote(s)

Chip: I can't hold my tongue. These kids are my grandchildren and you are raising them wrong. They are terrible boys!
Walker: Shut up, Chip, or I'll go ape-shit on your ass!
Texas Ranger: I'm gonna scissor-kick you in the back of the head!
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Yeah!
Ricky Bobby: Yeah! Now turn up the heat!
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Go on and get some, boys!
Ricky Bobby: Come on!
Walker: I'm 10 years old, but I'll beat your ass!
Texas Ranger: Chip, I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey!
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Like a spider monkey! Go on!
Ricky Bobby: Chip, you brought this on, man.
Walker: Greatest generation, my ass. Tom Brokaw's a punk!
Chip: What is wrong with you?
Texas Ranger: Chip, I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew!

58. Lou Brown, Major League

Memorable Quote(s)

Roger Dorn: Lou! Can I have a word with you, here?
Lou Brown: Sure.
Roger Dorn: See, I've got it right here in my contract. It says, "I don't have to do any calisthenics that I don't feel are necessary." So what do you think about that?
Lou Brown: [drops the contract on the ground and urinates on it, then walks off]

Lou Brown: I thought you said we didn't have any high-priced talent.
Charlie Donovan: Forget about Dorn, he's just high-priced.
Pepper Leach: [Vaughn pulls up on a motorcycle] Look at this f****n'guy.
Lou Brown: My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team.

57. Greg Goldberg, The Mighty Ducks

Memorable Quote(s)

Goldberg: Be careful man, it almost hit me that time!
Charlie Conway: Goldberg, you're the goalie. It's supposed to hit you.
Goldberg: Does that sound stupid to anyone else?

Goldberg: My mother is not gonna approve of this, Coach! She wants me to live to be Bar Mitzvah'd!
Gordon Bombay: This is your Bar Mitzvah, Goldberg. Today, you become a man.
Goldberg: No. I think you've got the ceremonies mixed up. This is more like a CIRCUMCISION.

56. Fortune, Rudy

Memorable Quote(s)

Fortune: You got your head so far up your ass about that damn football team, you don't get the fact that you just got a year of top quality education! Waste? Quit wasting my time!

Fortune: I rode the bench for two years. Thought I wasn't being played because of my color, I got filled up with a lotta attitude. So I quit. Still not a week goes by I don't regret it. And I guarantee a week won't go by in your life you won't regret walking out, letting them get the best of ya. You hear me clear enough?

55. Janet Cantrell, Invincible

Memorable Quote(s)

Janet Cantrell: Hey, I grew up with five brothers, but I have no problem hitting a girl.

54. Billy Bob, Varsity Blues

Memorable Quote(s)

Billy Bob: I sure do love that dog.
Mox: I think it's a pig.
Billy Bob: Yeah.

53. Phil Brickma, Rookie of the Year

Memorable Quote(s)

Phil Brickma: I wrap the cake up in my vomit bag, and voila!... Breakfast!
[pounding the airplane tray table]
Phil Brickma: Conservation, managing resources... that is the key to baseball.

Phil Brickma: The key to being a big league pitcher is the three R's: readiness, recuperation and conditioning!

Phil Brickma: Punctuality, Henry. Without it, time stands still.

52. Kansas Hill, Sugar & Spice

Memorable Quote(s)

Kansas: Hannah, in order to get real answers from the Netherworld, you've gotta have a Christian virgin run the board. Your kind is pure of heart, the devil won't d*ck with you.

Mrs. Hill: So, what'd you come here for? To tell me how much you hate me?
Kansas: I don't hate you. I need your help.
Mrs. Hill: And how in the hell can I help you?
Kansas: My best friend got pregnant.
Mrs. Hill: Before you? Woo hoo.
Kansas: Yeah, I know, that's what I said too. Anyway, we want to help her get some money for the baby by robbing a bank.
Mrs. Hill: Well, sh*tfire, Kansas, that's the sweetest thing I ever heard.
Kansas: But we can't quite figure out how to do it.
Mrs. Hill: So you need my help? Oh my God. This is like you asking me for help with your homework.

51. Scott Howard, Teen Wolf

Memorable Quote(s)

Harold Howard: I was hoping it would pass you by.
Scott Howard: Well Dad, it didn't pass me by. It landed on my face.

Harold Howard: Listen son, you're going to be able to do a lot of things the other guys aren't.
Scott Howard: Oh yeah, like chase cars, and bite the mailman?

50. East Compton Clovers, Bring It On

Memorable Quote(s)

Isis: Where we come from, "cheer" is not a word you hear very often...
Lava: They should call us "inspiration leaders" instead.
Jenelope: Oooh, that's deep... I like that.
Lafred: Look, I don't know why we writing to some talk show host. It's like we begging for charity or somethin'.
Isis: It's not charity. Pauletta's from our neighborhood. She'll understand why we need the money.
Lafred: [laughing] Tell her we need to buy doughnuts. Her big butt'll understand that.
Jenelope: Aha—stop trying to be counter-productive.
Lafred: Lava, stop teaching her these big words before she choke on one.
Jenelope: No, betta I choke you, Lafred!

49. Nigel Gruff, The Replacements

Memorable Quote(s)

Nigel "The Leg" Gruff: That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Jumbo: Screw you, Cockroach.
Nigel "The Leg" Gruff: I'll have to find your dick first.

Nigel "The Leg" Gruff: Hey Shane Falco, I lost a ton of money on that Sugar Bowl disaster of yours. What a bloody shambles that was. You could smell the stink all the way back in bloody Wales.
Shane Falco: Nice meeting you.

Jimmy McGinty: You're looking at a 65-yard field goal here.
Nigel "The Leg" Gruff: You just hold the ball, Shane, and I'll kick the bloody piss out of it.

48. Coach Norman Dale, Hoosiers

Memorable Quote(s)

Coach Norman Dale: I would hope you would support who we are. Not who we are not. These six individuals have made a choice to work, a choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line 23 nights for the next four months, to represent you, this high school. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team.

47. Morris Buttermaker, Bad News Bears

Memorable Quote(s)

Engelberg: You're not supposed to have open liquor in the car. It's against the law.
Coach Morris Buttermaker: So is murder, Engleberg. Now put that back before you get me in real trouble.

Coach Morris Buttermaker: Listen, Lupus, you didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya? Now get your ass out there and do the best you can.

46. Darcy Sears, Varsity Blues

Memorable Quote(s)

Darcy: Baby, I got so excited thinking about next year and Florida State and the future, I think I need to be your wide receiver.
Lance: Here, baby.
Darcy: Well not "here" here, but somewhere here.

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45. Skip Engblom, Lords of Dogtown

Memorable Quote(s)

Skip: They wanted it gone, man, they wanted it gone.

Skip: You gotta approach every day as if it's your last!

Skip: Yeah, hi. This isn't a library... so it's 10 bucks to browse. You got 10 bucks?
Customer: Didn't bring any money today.
Skip: Yeah, well, why'd you come into my store, then, a**hole?

44. Hanson Brothers, Slap Shot

Memorable Quote(s)

Johnny Upton: [on the Hanson Brothers] These guys are a f***ing disgrace!

43. Roy Hobbs, The Natural

Memorable Quote(s)

Roy Hobbs: I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

42. Gloria Clemente, White Men Can't Jump

Memorable Quote(s)

Gloria Clemente: Teammates can't hustle each other.
Rhonda Deane: Why not?
Gloria Clemente: It's not artistic. 

41. Sparky Polastri, Bring It On

Memorable Quote(s)

Sparky: I am a choreographer. That's what I do. You are cheerleaders. Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarded. What you do is a tiny, pathetic subset of dancing. I will attempt to turn your robotic routines into poetry, written with the human body. Follow me, or perish, sweater monkeys.

Courtney: Why does everyone have to go on a diet?
Sparky: Because! In cheerleading, we throw people into the air. And fat people don't go as high.

40. Coach Herman Boone, Remember the Titans

Memorable Quote(s)

Carol Boone: Sometimes life is hard for no reason at all.

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39. Cal Naughton Jr., Talladega Nights

Memorable Quote(s)

Cal Naughton, Jr.: I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo T-Shirt because it says I want to be formal, but I'm here to party.

Cal Naughton, Jr.: I like to picture Jesus as a figure skater. He wears like a white outfit, and He does interpretive ice dances of my life's journey.

Cal Naughton, Jr.: I like to think of Jesus like with giant eagle's wings, and singin' lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd with, like, an angel band and I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk!

Cal Naughton, Jr.: I like to think of Jesus as a mischievous badger.

38. Diana Guzman, Girlfight

Memorable Quote(s)

Diana Guzman: Maybe. Maybe life is just war, period.

37. Jerry Maguire, Jerry Maguire

Memorable Quote(s)

Jerry: I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, okay?

Jerry: He said I don't understand what it means to be a black person? I am mister black people!

Jerry: Help me... help you. Help me, help you.

36. Fast Eddie Felson, The Hustler

Memorable Quote(s)

Fast Eddie: I don't rattle, kid. But just for that, I'm gonna beat you flat.

Fast Eddie: I'm the best you ever seen, Fats. I'm the best there is. And even if you beat me, I'm still the best.
Bert Gordon: Stay with this kid; he's a LOSER.

35. Doris Murphy, A League of Their Own

Memorable Quote(s)

Doris Murphy: Okay, let's make like a bread truck and haul buns, ladies.

Doris Murphy: What are you lookin' at?
Dottie Hinson: Nothing.
Doris Murphy: That's right, nothin'.

34. Willie Mays Hayes, Major League

Memorable Quote(s)

Willie Mays Hayes: [to Jake] Cerrano's looking for some extra power for tonight. He's looking to sacrifice a live chicken. Man, we can't have people puking in the locker room before the game!

Willie Mays Hayes: Call the stewardess, Vaughn. I need one of those bags.
Rick Vaughn: There aren't any stewardesses.
Willie Mays Hayes: I wonder if there are any pilots.

33. Rudy Ruetiger, Rudy

Memorable Quote(s)

Rudy: We're gonna go inside, we're gonna go outside, inside and outside. We're gonna get 'em on the run, boys, and once we get 'em on the run, we're gonna keep 'em on the run. And then we're gonna go go go go go go and we're not gonna stop 'til we get across that goalline.

This is a team they say is... is good, well I think we're better than them. They can't lick us, so what do you say, men?

32. Ray Kinsella, Field of Dreams

Memorable Quote(s)

Ray Kinsella: I'm 36 years old, I love my family, I love baseball and I'm about to become a farmer. But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life.

Annie Kinsella: If you build what, who will come?
Ray Kinsella: He didn't say.

Ray Kinsella: The Voice is back.
Annie Kinsella: Oh, Lord. You're supposed to build a football field, now?

Ray Kinsella: This is my corn. You people are guests in my corn.

31. Bodhi, Point Break

Memorable Quote(s)

Bodhi: [during a skydiving game of chicken with Johnny, both falling with no parachute open] Six seconds. We're going to be meat waffles.

Bodhi: Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn't it?

Bodhi: If you want the ultimate, you've got to be willing to pay the ultimate price. It's not tragic to die doing what you love.

30. Reemer, BASEketball

Memorable Quote(s)

Reemer: Oh, I'll come, I love hospitals.
Coop: No you don't, you like Taco Bell!
Reemer: No, one time I was at this hospital, in France, and I met this great chick.
Coop: Dude, that was a hostel.

Baxter Cain: Do you think Shaq got rich playing in Orlando? Hardly, he made his fortune moving to L.A. You know how much he makes now?
Reemer: As much as he made playing in college?
Baxter Cain: What? No, a lot more! Big money, and you can too!
Reemer: Would I have to quit baseketball?
Baxter Cain: What? No, I need you to get Coop to go along!
Reemer: He'd have to quit baseketball too?
Baxter Cain: [Dumbfounded, holding his head in pain] Ehhh... ahh...
Reemer: Did I just fart?

29. Coop, BASEketball

Memorable Quote(s)

Coop: Go back to your fancy cars, and your big bank accounts and your celebrity friends, and your beautiful women and Victoria Silvestedt, Playmate of the Year... F**K!

Coop: If you want unanimous consent, you're gonna have to get it from one of the other owners.

Coop: If I had a nickel for every time that ball pulled me out of a tight spot, I'd have a sh*tload of nickels!

Coop: With that new liver, he'll be peeing like a champ in no time!
Jenna Reed: That's kidneys, Coop.

28. Joey, Raging Bull

Memorable Quote(s)

Joey LaMotta: If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win.

Joey LaMotta: What are ya thinkin' about? Ya keep lookin'. Where the **** you going? You're dead! You're married! You're a married man, it's all over. Leave the young girls for me.

27. Happy Gilmore, Happy Gilmore

Memorable Quote(s)

Happy Gilmore: Golf requires goofy pants and a fat ass. You should talk to my neighbor, the accountant. Probably a great golfer... huge ass.

Happy Gilmore: What? Friends listen to "Endless Love" in the dark.

Happy Gilmore: [after seeing a limousine] Whoa, must be Burt Reynolds or something.

Happy Gilmore: [voice over narration] During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records: most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.

26. Annie Savoy, Bull Durham

Memorable Quote(s)

Annie Savoy: The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness.

Annie Savoy: Listen, sweetheart, you shouldn't listen to what a woman says when she's in the throes of passion. They say the darndest things.
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Yeah, you said "Crash"!
Annie Savoy: Honey, would you rather I were making love to him using your name, or making love to you using his name?

25. Rocky Balboa, Rocky

Memorable Quote(s)

Rocky: I just want to say hi to my girlfriend, Okay? Yo, Adrian! It's me, Rocky.

Rocky: Well, ya see, sir I understand you're lookin' for sparrin' partners for Apollo, and I jus' want ta let ya know that I am very available.

Adrian: Why do you wanna fight?
Rocky: Because I can't sing or dance.

Rocky: Yeah, that's me when I was eight years old, that's the Italian Stallion when he was a baby.

24. Sidney Deane, White Men Can't Jump

Memorable Quote(s)

Sidney Deane: You can put a cat in an oven, but that don't make it a biscuit.

Sidney Deane: You see Billy, it's like this: you either smoke or you get smoked. And you got smoked.

23. Dickie Eklund, The Fighter

Memorable Quote(s)

Dickie Eklund: Its not f***in' ladylike to be shoutin' in the street like this.

Dickie Eklund: Who used to be the pride of Lowell? Right here.
[points at himself]
Dickie Eklund: Who's the pride of Lowell now?
[points at Micky]
Dickie Eklund: Right there.

22. Herb Brooks, Miracle

Memorable Quote(s)

Herb Brooks: Great moments... are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight: one game. If we played 'em 10 times, they might win nine. But not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them. And we shut them down, because we can!

Tonight, WE are the greatest hockey team in the world. You were born to be hockey players. Every one of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it.

21. Gale Sayers & Brian Piccolo, Brian's Song

Memorable Quotes 

Brian Piccolo: I think I know what's wrong with me.
Gale Sayers: Yeah, what's that?
Brian Piccolo: I'm pregnant.

Brian Piccolo: Well, on uh, Fake Draw Screen Right I uh, pick up the linebacker if he's comin, 'less of course it's Butkus, then I simply notify the quarterback to send for a preacher.

Brian Piccolo: I said thank you.
Gale Sayers: I know.
Brian Piccolo: Well, usually when someone says thank you, you're supposed to say you're welcome or how's your mother?
Gale Sayers: How's your mother? ?
Brian Piccolo: She's doin' fine, thanks for asking.

20. Christina Pagniacci, Any Given Sunday

Memorable Quote(s)

Christina Pagniacci: (Speaking to Tony) Why the hell do you think my father put me in charge, you bullheaded moron!

Christina Pagniacci: [in passing a player in the locker room exposed in all his manhood] Don't stiffen on me.

Commissioner: [of Christina Pagniacci] I honestly believe that woman would eat her own young.

19. Crash Davis, Bull Durham

Memorable Quote(s)

Crash Davis: Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls—it's more democratic.

Crash Davis: Yeah? From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a fucking boat.

Crash Davis: Good! That's good; when you get in a fight with a drunk, you don't hit him with your pitching hand. God, I can't keep giving you these free lessons so quit screwin' around and help me up.

Crash Davis: Man, that ball got outta here in a hurry. I mean, anything travels that far oughta have a damn stewardess on it, don't you think?

18. Carl Spackler, Caddyshack

Memorable Quote(s)

Sandy: I want you to kill every gopher on the golf course!
Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong, Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key...
Sandy: Not golfers, you great fool! Gophers! The *little* *brown*, *furry* *rodents!*
Carl Spackler: We can do that; we don't even have to have a reason. All right, let's do the same thing, but with gophers.

17. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the Hurricane

Memorable Quote(s)

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: [to the Warden] I'm innocent. I've committed no crime. A crime's been committed against me.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: [to Lesra] Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

Reporter: Mr. Carter, now that you're out, are you still going to be "The Hurricane"?
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: Oh, I'll always be the "Hurricane", and a hurricane is beautiful.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter: [voice over narration] The one thing I could do, and the only thing, was box. I had tasted my own blood and I loved it.

16. Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own

Memorable Quote(s)

Walter Harvey: You kind of let me down on that San Antonio job.
Jimmy Dugan: I, uh, yeah, I, uh... I freely admit, sir, I had no right to... sell off the team's equipment like that; that won't happen again.
Walter Harvey: Let me be blunt. Are you still a fall-down drunk?
Jimmy Dugan: Well, that is blunt. Ahem, no sir, I've, uh, quit drinking.
Walter Harvey: You've seen the error of your ways.
Jimmy Dugan: No, I just can't afford it.
[giggles]
Walter Harvey: It's funny to you. Your drinking is funny. You're a young man, Jimmy: you still could be playing, if you just would've laid off the booze.
Jimmy Dugan: Well, it's not exactly like that... I hurt my knee.
Walter Harvey: You fell out of a hotel. That's how you hurt it.
Jimmy Dugan: Well, there was a fire.
Walter Harvey: Which you started, which I had to pay for.
Jimmy Dugan: Well, now, I was going to send you a thank-you card, Mr. Harvey, but I wasn't allowed anything sharp to write with.

15. Paul 'Wrecking' Crewe, The Longest Yard

Memorable Quote(s)

Paul Crewe: [Drunkenly as a short policeman comes to arrest him] Look what we have here—a miniature cop!

Paul Crewe: The most important thing to remember is: to protect your quarterback—ME!

Police Officer: Why'd you drive her car into the bay?
Paul Crewe: Couldn't find a car wash.

14. Mr. Miyagi, the Karate Kid

Memorable Quote(s)

Mr. Miyagi: We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions.

Mr. Miyagi: Karate come from China, 16th century, called the "hand." Hundred year later, Miyagi ancestor bring to Okinawa, call *kara*-te, "empty hand."
Daniel: I thought it came from Buddhist temples and stuff like that.
Mr. Miyagi: You too much TV.

13. Wilbur "Shooter" Flatch, Hoosiers

Memorable Quote(s)

Shooter: I know everything there is to know about the greatest game ever invented.

12. Shooter McGavin, Happy Gilmore

Memorable Quote(s)

Shooter McGavin: You're in big trouble though, pal. I eat pieces of sh*t like you for breakfast!
Happy Gilmore: [laughing] You eat pieces of sh*t for breakfast?
Shooter McGavin: [long pause] No!

Shooter McGavin: Damn, you people. Go back to your shanties.

Shooter McGavin: [under his breath] You know what *else* could draw a crowd? A golfer with an arm growing out of his ass.

11. Leigh Anne Tuohy, The Blind Side

Memorable Quote(s)

Leigh Anne Touhy: If you so much as set foot downtown, you will be sorry. I'm in a prayer group with the D.A., I'm a member of the NRA and I'm always packing.

Leigh Anne Touhy: We have been here for an hour, and all I see is people shooting the bull and drinking coffee. I want to know who runs this joint?
[the welfare worker points to a picture of George W. Bush]

Leigh Anne Touhy: [to redneck heckler at football game] Hey... crotchmouth! Yeah, you! Zip it, or I'll come up there and zip if for ya!
[to same, after his kid gets sacked]
Leigh Anne Touhy: Yo, deliverance. You see number 74? Well, that's *my* son.

10. Charlie Tweeder, Varsity Blues

Memorable Quote(s)

Tweeder: Jonathan Moxon, your are under arrest for not being naked with some sophomore chick who wants to bathe you with her tongue, now take off your god damn clothes and get in the car.

Tweeder: [Mooning Mox and Billy Bob through the truck window] Good moonin, boys! Good moonin! I have been up since the crack of dawn and I had to *ass* you a question.

Tweeder: Ain't it funny? That's what I mean. See, they need to change the name of the show to America's Funniest Shots in the Nuts.

9. Billy Beane & Peter Brand, Moneyball

Memorable Quote(s)

Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death?
Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?

Peter Brand: I wanted you to see these player evaluations that you asked me to do.
Billy Beane: I asked you to do three.
Peter Brand: Yeah.
Billy Beane: To evaluate three players.
Peter Brand: Yeah.
Billy Beane: How many you'd do?
Peter Brand: 47.
Billy Beane: Okay.
Peter Brand: Actually, 51. I don't know why I lied just then.

8. Jesus Shuttlesworth, He Got Game

Memorable Quote(s)

Jesus Shuttlesworth: I hate my name. What kind of name is Jesus, anyway?
Jake Shuttlesworth: It's biblical.
Jesus Shuttlesworth: Yeah, no kidding.

Jesus Shuttlesworth: God ain't sh*t!
Jake Shuttlesworth: Number one, why you gotta use this kinda language? What, you some kinda heathen now? You don't make no mistakes? You be out here shootin', but you don't miss no shots ever? EVER? People make mistakes! People veer off the path! God forgives them!
Jesus Shuttlesworth: Has God forgiven you for killing my mother?
Jake Shuttlesworth: I pray that he has, son. I believe he has. When will you?

7. Ricky Bobby, Talladega Nights

Memorable Quote(s)

Ricky Bobby: If you ain't first, you're last. 

Ricky Bobby: [television commercial] Hi, I'm Ricky Bobby. If you don't chew Big Red, then f-*bleep* you.

Ricky Bobby: Dear Lord baby Jesus, lyin' there in your ghost manger, just lookin' at your Baby Einstein developmental videos, learnin' 'bout shapes and colors. I would like to thank you for bringin' me and my mama together, and also that my kids no longer sound like retarded gang-bangers.

Ricky Bobby: Well, let me just quote the late, great Colonel Sanders, who said..."I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."

Ricky Bobby: Here's the deal, I'm the best there is. Plain and simple. I wake up in the morning and I piss excellence.

6. Charlene Fleming, The Fighter

Memorable Quote(s)

Charlene Fleming: That's the movie you wanted to see? There wasn't even any good sex in it. Had to read the whole f***in' movie. F***in' subtitled. Some guy from a road crew recommended it to you? A f***in' subtitled movie?

Charlene Fleming: Stop callin' me an MTV girl, or whatever the f**k that means.

Mickey Ward: Alice, this is Charlene.
Charlene Fleming: Hi.
Alice Ward: I've heard a lot about you.
Charlene Fleming: Really? I've heard a lot about you, too.
Alice Ward: What's that supposed to mean?
Charlene Fleming: Same thing you meant.

5. Paul Aufiero, Big Fan

Memorable Quote(s)

Paul Aufiero: It's gonna be a great year!

4. Randy "the Ram" Robinson, The Wrestler

Memorable Quote(s)

Randy "The Ram" Robinson: What can I get for you, good-lookin'?
Touchdown Man at Deli Counter: Half pound of egg salad.
Randy "The Ram" Robinson: HALF POUND OF EGG SALAD, COMIN' UP!
Touchdown Man at Deli Counter: Is it fresh?
Randy "The Ram" Robinson: Fresh? Fresh as monkey's breath, brother!

Randy "The Ram" Robinson: When you live hard and you play hard and burn the candle at both ends... in this life, you can lose everything you love, everything that loves you. A lot of people told me that I'd never wrestle again, they said "he's washed up", "he's finished" , "he's a loser", "he's all through".

You know what? The only ones gonna tell me when I'm through doing my thing, is you people here. You people here... you people here. You're my family.

3. Rick Vaughn, Major League

Memorable Quote(s)

Willie Mays Hayes: I don't know. He's not wearing a name tag.
Rick Vaughn: Want me to drag him outta here, kick the sh*t out of him?

Willie Mays Hayes: What the hell league you been playing in?
Rick Vaughn: California Penal...
Willie Mays Hayes: Never heard of it. How'd you end up playing there?
Rick Vaughn: Stole a car.

2. Rod Tidwell, Jerry Maguire

Memorable Quote(s)

Rod Tidwell: I wanna make sure you're ready, brother. Here it is: Show me the money. Oh-ho-ho! SHOW! ME! THE! MONEY! A-ha-ha! Jerry, doesn't it make you feel good just to say that! Say it with me one time, Jerry.

Rod Tidwell: Anyone else would have left you by now, but I'm sticking with you. And if I have to ride your ass like Zorro, you're gonna show me the money.

1. Jake La Motta, Raging Bull

Memorable Quote(s)

Jake La Motta: I get ya's both in the ring, I'll give ya both a f***in' beatin', ya both can f**k each other.

Jake La Motta: I've done a lot of bad things, Joey. Maybe it's comin' back to me. Who knows? I'm a jinx maybe. Who the hell knows?