Coach Barker Quotes in Air Bud (1997)

[Josh comes into gymnasium late]

Coach Barker: Framm! You're late!

Josh Framm: I'm here to try out for the team.

Larry Willingham: [laughing] He can't try out. He's the water boy.

Larry Willingham: Framm! Where did you get that?

Josh Framm: It was in my locker.

Coach Barker: Well, it wasn't supposed to be.

Josh Framm: Would it be too much trouble if I tried out anyway?

Tom: Coach, just let him.

Coach Barker: All right, but if you slow down my tryout, I'm gonna have to pull you out.

Josh Framm: [During first Timberwolves & Warriors basketball game, Buddy comes into gymnasium and knocked basketball out of a Warrior's grip] Buddy!

[Both teams start chasing Buddy, to try to get the basketball back, saying "Get him!"]

Josh Framm: Buddy, stop!

Referee #1: Hey, gimme that ball.

Jackie Framm: [Loose basketball then hits a Gatorade ice-chest, causing a big spill on gymnasium floor] Excuse me.

Josh Framm: Get back here.

[basketball hits referee in his forehead, making him walk to bench. Meanwhile, the other referee loses his balance and slides into a table, hitting one set of legs, causing the table to fold on end nearly injure him]

Josh Framm: Buddy, no!

[Buddy then causes a rack of basketballs to spill, onto floor]

Josh Framm: Buddy, no!

[Josh gets the basketball, then Buddy knocks it, out of Josh's hands and up into basketball rim for a bucket. Audience and referees are a -first in shock and then start cheering for Buddy]

Josh Framm: Buddy, bad dog!

Jackie Framm: Sorry, Josh. Come on, Buddy.

Josh Framm: [after the game] Hey, boy.

Jackie Framm: Did you know that Buddy could do that? Did you know that Buddy could play basketball?

Principal Pepper: [chuckling] There he is! Oh, the man of the hour! And the dog! I swear, I wouldn't have believed it, if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes! A basketball-playing dog! A regular Michael "Woof" Jordan! You've been keeping this under your hats! Oh, I'm going off like a faucet. Melissa, this is Mrs. Framm... and her talented son, Josh.

Melissa: Hi.

Josh Framm: Hi.

Melissa: I'm the president, of the Booster Club and wondered if you and...

Josh Framm: Buddy.

Melissa: Buddy could do that trick, at the next half-time show.

Principal Pepper: Wouldn't he be a great mascot?

Josh Framm: [Buddy leaves them, going back to the gymnasium, having overheard Coach Barker shouting at and mistreating Timberwolf Tom Stewart] Buddy? Buddy!

Coach Barker: You're never going to drop another ball, Stewart!

[starts throwing a group of basketballs at Tom Stewart too hard and to fast for him to successfully catch any of them, to vent out his anger]

Principal Pepper: [opens the gymnasium door] What's going on here?

Coach Barker: Just running Tom through a little drill.

Principal Pepper: That'll be enough, Joe. That will be enough.

Josh Framm: [Josh pets Buddy's head at gymnasium door] Good boy!

[Josh comes into the gym for the first tryout]

Greg: Check out the new kid.

Larry Willingham: It looks like he stole that ball from the Harlem Globetrotters.

[Josh climbs up the bleachers past Larry]

Larry Willingham: How you doin', buddy?

Coach Barker: All right, listen up!

[Josh takes his seat as Coach Barker approaches]

Coach Barker: Now, you're here today to try out for the school's finest tradition: basketball. Now, I've got five of my boys back from last year, including leading scorer Larry Willingham. Raise your hands, gentlemen.

[Larry, Greg and three other boys raise their hands]

Coach Barker: This year, we are going all the way. Why's that, Willingham?

Larry Willingham: Because we're winners, sir.

Coach Barker: That's right. We are here to win, because if you can win on the courts, you can win at life. Get your butts out here and let's see if you can play ball.

[Coach Barker blows his whistle and everyone comes out on the court and begins playing except Josh]

Coach Barker: What team you playing for? What team you playing for?

Players: [in unison] Timberwolves!

Coach Barker: Who's gonna win?

Players: [in unison] Timberwolves!

Coach Barker: Who's gonna win?

Players: [in unison] Timberwolves!

Coach Barker: I can't hear you!

Players: [in unison] Timberwolves!

Coach Barker: What team's gonna win?

Players: [in unison] Timberwolves!