Harold "Speedy" Swift Quotes in Speedy (1928)

Harold "Speedy" Swift: It smells like rain.

Harold "Speedy" Swift: Mad dog! Mad dog!

Harold "Speedy" Swift: Gee, Babe, you've done more for baseball than cheese did for Switzerland.

Harold "Speedy" Swift: [talking to Babe Ruth and not watching traffic] Gosh, Babe - this is the proudest moment of my life!

Babe Ruth: If you don't look out, it'll be the last.

Harold "Speedy" Swift: Big men don't keep jobs like that. You never heard of Lincoln jerking soda water.

Harold "Speedy" Swift: Aw, Jane - why worry about losing a job on Saturday, when we can go to Coney Island on Sunday?

Traffic Cop: Say, you crazy nut - where did you learn to drive?

Harold "Speedy" Swift: I didn't. It's a gift.

Babe Ruth: Hey, taxi!

Harold "Speedy" Swift: Huh? Me?

Babe Ruth: Come over here. Drive me to Yankee Stadium - in a hurry!

Harold "Speedy" Swift: [Dodging traffic while driving Babe to Yankee Stadium] Even when you strike out, you miss 'em close.

Babe Ruth: I don't miss 'em half as close as you do.

Harold "Speedy" Swift: [Watching Babe hit a home run at Yankee Stadium] Attaboy, Babe!

Harold "Speedy" Swift: I got a tip that there's a tough gang coming down to take Pop's car.

Old Man Card Player 1: Boys, if anybody tries to take this car, we ought to have somethin' to say about it!

Civil War Veteran: Us boys fought in the Civil War an' our old password was - "it smells like rain." If you get in trouble, pass the word "it smells like rain"; Jed'll blow his bugle - an' we'll all be there.

Old Man Card Player 2: In twenty years, I ain't fought with nobody but my wife - an' I'm right on edge!

Harold "Speedy" Swift: Jane, what do you say we take the horse car - and drive to Niagara Falls?