Mel Clark Quotes in Angels in the Outfield (1994)

Maggie Nelson: [stands] Um, excuse me. I'd like to say something on behalf of George Knox.

Hank Murphy: What's your name? What's your business here?

Maggie Nelson: My name is Maggie Nelson. I take care of foster kids. One of these boys is the child who can see angels. He could stand up right now and tell you what's going on and I'd know you'd just laugh at him. But, when a professional football player drops to one knee to thank God for making a touchdown, nobody laughs at that. Or when a pitcher crosses himself before going to the mound, no one laughs at that either. It's like your saying it's okay to believe in God, but it's not okay to believe in angels. Now, I thought that they were on the same team.

Hank Murphy: Is it your belief, ma'am, that angels play baseball?

Maggie Nelson: Since the all-star break, yes. We all need someone to believe in. Every child I have ever looked after has someone: an angel. You've got to have faith. You've got to believe. You have to look inside yourself. The footprints of an angel are love, and where there is love, miraculous things can happen. I've seen it.

[sits]

Mel Clark: [stands] I'd also like to say something. I don't know if there are any angels here other than the twenty-five of us in uniform. But I know there is one thing I won't do: I won't play for anyone but George Knox. I believe in him.

Triscuitt Messmer: [stands] That goes for me, too.

Rest of Angels baseball team, Roger, & J.P.: [stands and nods in agreement]

George Knox: Thank you. All of you.

JP: You used to be Mel Clark?

Mel Clark: Yeah. I used to be.

Mel Clark: I've got nothing left.

George Knox: Yeah, you do. You've got one strike left.

[turns to dugout, Roger walks out flapping his arms like angel's wings]

George Knox: You've got an angel with you right now... just got here, and he's going to help.

Mel Clark: The kid sees an angel?

George Knox: Yeah, he must. That's the signal.

[gradually all players and crowd, even those in the office, stand and flap their arms]

George Knox: [moved by seeing the crowd] It could happen.

Mel Clark, George Knox: Okay.

George Knox: [laughs] Go get 'em for the championship!

George Knox: [on when Mel can play again] How's never sound? You blew your arm out, played on too many pain pills.

Mel Clark: Pain pills? You were the one stuffin' them down my throat five years ago in Cincinnati.

George Knox: Hey, it was your decision to swallow 'em! I had a brain. When you couldn't play, I transferred you. Got rid of you. I never thought I'd get stuck with you again.

Mel Clark: I got nothing left.

George Knox: Yeah, you do. You got one strike left.

[Roger and JP come out of the dugout flapping their arms]

George Knox: You got an angel with you right now. He just got here, and he's going to help you.

Mel Clark: The kid sees an angel?

George Knox: Yeah, he must. That's the signal.

[the crowd and players begin flapping their arms like angel wings]

George Knox: Good helping.

[soon everybody except Ranch is flapping their arms]

Mel Clark: Okay.

George Knox: Go get 'em for the championship!