Amanda Whurlitzer Quotes in The Bad News Bears (1976)

Tanner Boyle: Jews, spics, niggers, and now a girl?

Amanda Whurlitzer: Grab a bat, punk!

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.

Coach Morris Buttermaker: Those boys aren't very rough. You won't get hurt.

Amanda Whurlitzer: That's got nothing to do with it. I'm almost 12 and I'll... I'll be getting a bra soon.

[Buttermaker stares. Amanda looks at her chest]

Amanda Whurlitzer: Well, maybe in a year or so. I can't be playing all dumb baseball.

Coach Morris Buttermaker: What if he tries something?

Amanda Whurlitzer: I'll handle it.

Coach Morris Buttermaker: Rolling Stones, 11 years old.

Amanda Whurlitzer: I know an 11-year-old girl who is already on the pill.

Coach Morris Buttermaker: Don't ever say that word again.

Amanda Whurlitzer: Jesus! Just who in the heck you think you are?

Coach Morris Buttermaker: The goddamned manager, that's who!

Amanda Whurlitzer: Big wow!

Coach Morris Buttermaker: Well, your mother and I didn't got along too well, Amanda. I liked her very much, though. I still do. As a matter of fact I'm just not the marrying kind. But I guess I handled it badly, huh?

Amanda Whurlitzer: You handled it like shit!

Amanda Whurlitzer: Hey, Buttermaker! Maybe next spring you'll teach me how to hit.

Coach Morris Buttermaker: You bet.

Amanda Whurlitzer: We could use a good outfielder on our team

Kelly: Oh you call what you got a team?

Amanda Whurlitzer: What you got against baseball anyway?

Kelly: Well the baseball you guys play is for faggots and old farts with nothing better to do with themselves.

Amanda Whurlitzer: Well you must like those kind of guys you sure do hang around the field often enough!

Kelly: There's nice ass at the field, that's why I always hang around it.

Kelly: [entering after everyone refuses to wear cups] If she doesn't wear one neither do I.

Amanda Whurlitzer: What are you doing here?

Kelly: Some asshole changed my mind

Amanda Whurlitzer: Man, you must have a big one because I don't know what else my mom saw in you.

Morris Buttermaker: You're not supposed to be talking about my... my one. You're 12 years old. As far as you know, I'm like G.I. Joe down there, okay?

Amanda Whurlitzer: I have the Internet, you know. I'm not stupid.

[after her daughter tells him she's going "out" with a boy]

Morris Buttermaker: You're 12. There ain't no out when you're 12.

Amanda Whurlitzer: Calm down, "Boilermaker". It's just a show with some stupid band. I'm not a little girl anymore. I had my period, alright?

Morris Buttermaker: Do you want me to have a stroke or something?