Jimmy McGinty Quotes in The Replacements (2000)

Jimmy McGinty: When the Washington Sentinels left the stadium that date, there was no tickertape parade, no endorsement deals for sneakers or soda pop, or breakfast cereal. Just a locker to be cleaned out, and a ride home to catch. But what they didn't know, was that their lives had been changed forever because they had been part of something great. And greatness, no matter how brief, stays with a man. Every athlete dreams of a second chance, these men lived it.

Jimmy McGinty: Falco! If I had wanted Cochran to have the ball I would've called it that way!

Shane Falco: I read blitz.

Jimmy McGinty: Bullshit! I put the game in your hands... you got scared.

Shane Falco: I READ BLITZ.

Jimmy McGinty: [walks over and looks at Falco with disgust] Winners always want the ball... when the game is on the line.

Jimmy McGinty: You know what seperates the winners from the losers?

Shane Falco: The score.

Jimmy McGinty: No, getting back on the horse after getting kicked in the teeth.

Shane Falco: Hey coach, can I ask you a question?

Jimmy McGinty: Yeah, shoot.

Shane Falco: Why me?

Jimmy McGinty: I look at you and I see two men: the man you are, and the man you ought to be. Someday those two will meet. Should make for a hell of a football player.

Jimmy McGinty: Listen up! By this time tomorrow the strike will be officially over and you men will be out of a job. Up until now Dallas hasn't been afraid of you, and they should be because you have a powerful weapon working for you. There is no tomorrow for you, and that makes you all very dangerous people!

Jimmy McGinty: [Danny returns to him with the ball he got in the last play] You got me the ball.

Daniel Bateman: I got you the ball.

Jimmy McGinty: You got me the ball.

Daniel Bateman: I got you the ball.

Jimmy McGinty: [shouts repeatedly] You got me the ball!

Daniel Bateman: [shouts repeatedly] I got you the ball!

[then whistle blows]

Jimmy McGinty: [speaking calmly] Go sit down now, Danny.

Daniel Bateman: Okay.

[McGuinty then lets out a relieving sigh]

Jimmy McGinty: The truth is, you guys have been given something that every athlete dreams of: a second chance. And you're afraid of blowing it. We all are. But now our fear is shared, and we can overcome it together.

Jimmy McGinty: [stopping Danny before he runs on the field] Danny, I need the ball.

Daniel Bateman: You need the ball.

Jimmy McGinty: I need you to get me the ball.

Daniel Bateman: I'm going to get you the ball.

Jimmy McGinty: [starts shouting repeatedly to rev Danny up] Are you gonna get me the ball!

Daniel Bateman: [shouting back repeatedly] I wanna get you the ball!

[then runs on the field]

Jimmy McGinty: I hope he doesn't kill someone.

Jimmy McGinty: That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

Shane Falco: I want the ball.

Jimmy McGinty: Winners always do.

Jimmy McGinty: These are people I've been keeping my eye on over the years. They all played football somewhere, not all of them in the pros, but they all have something unique to bring to the game. We're going to try to get these people together and try to put together a winning team. If nothing else, they should be fun to watch.

[shows first picture]

Jimmy McGinty: Daniel Bateman, SWAT team officer. Awarded the Purple Heart for losing a kidney during the Gulf War

[cuts to Bateman raiding a drug lab]

Jimmy McGinty: He was a walk-on at Michigan State before he gave up football to sneak back into the service for one more tour of duty.

[goes to next picture]

Jimmy McGinty: Clifford Franklin. Great attitude, great desire, and *the* fastest son of a bitch I've ever seen.

[cuts to a grocery store and a teen stealing a Twinkie and running away]

Korean Store Owner: Hey! Clifford, Twinkie!

[Clifford dashes past. He easily catches up to the kid, jogging alongside while the kid's dashing at full sprint]

Clifford Franklin: What's up man?

Kid in Liquor Store: What's up?

Clifford Franklin: Got any Twinkies?

Pilachowski: But can he catch?

[the theif tosses the Twinkies into the air. Clifford stands under it, ready to catch it, when the package bounces off his head and lands under his foot, where he steps down on the Twinkies, squishing them]

Jimmy McGinty: That's why I have you, Leo

Jimmy McGinty: All right, Sentinels. Listen up. There are some who will say that your accomplishments today will soon be forgotten, that you're not real players, that this isn't a real team. And I say that's bullshit. Because as of today, you're all professional football players. You're being paid to play, and I want to you to remember that, because the men whose places you've taken forgot that a long time ago. Let's bring it in. Let's play some football.

Jimmy McGinty: A real man admits his fears. That's what I'm asking you to do here tonight. Fears... lets talk about them.

Clifford Franklin: [Clears throat] I'm scared of spiders, Coach.

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.

Jimmy McGinty: Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Jimmy McGinty: Hell of a game, that Sugar Bowl. What'd you lose that by, forty points?

Shane Falco: That would be forty-five.

Jimmy McGinty: Sometimes a game like that really sticks with you. You never shake it off.

Shane Falco: Got three concussions to prove it.

Jimmy McGinty: [chuckling] That's why girls don't play the game.

Clifford Franklin: [Jimmy's putting stick-um on his hands] Coach, ain't that stuff illegal?

Jimmy McGinty: What are they going to do? Put you in football jail?

Pilachowski: Hey Jimmy, my tight end is... deaf.

Jimmy McGinty: Yeah, I know.

Pilachowski: Well Jimmy, how am I gonna coach a deaf man?

Jimmy McGinty: Oh, you don't need to. Brian Murphy would've gone in the first round 5 years ago if he hadn't been born deaf. Played his college ball right here in D.C., Gallaudet.

Pilachowski: But Jimmy, I need to communicate with him and how...?

Jimmy McGinty: Learn to sign, you know...

[does some sign language]

Pilachowski: Oh, horseshit!

Jimmy McGinty: Look at it this way; he'll never be called offsides on an audible.

Jimmy McGinty: I want you to know that if anything like this bar fight happens again, there'll be no place on the football team for any of you!... Do I make myself perfectly clear?

Washington Sentinels: Yes coach.

Jimmy McGinty: And just for the record, I would've loved to have been there to see Martel get his ass kicked!

Jimmy McGinty: Falco, it's nasty out there.

Shane Falco: That's why girls don't play the game, coach.

Edward O'Neil: Give me a cigarette.

Jimmy McGinty: I quit.

Edward O'Neil: Nobody likes a quitter, Jimmy.

[Danny has tackled Shane during practice]

Jimmy McGinty: Good hit. Danny, in practice we don't hit the guys in the red shirts.

Daniel Bateman: I know, Coach, but I see that red and I just wanna go after it, like a bull, you know?

Jimmy McGinty: Falco! If I had wanted Cochran to have the ball I would've called it that way!

Shane Falco: I read blitz.

Jimmy McGinty: Bullshit! I put the game in your hands... you got scared.

Shane Falco: I READ BLITZ.

Jimmy McGinty: [walks over and looks at Falco with disgust] Winners always want the ball... when the game is on the line.