Mike Winchell Quotes in Friday Night Lights (2004)

Mike Winchell: You ever feel cursed, Coach? Like, no matter what, inside your heart you feel that you're gonna lose. Like something's hanging over you, following you like a witch or a demon that just... I feel like that all the time. Even when things are going good. When we're winnin', it's there. And when we're losin', it's there.

Coach Gary Gaines: It took me a long time to realize that, uh, there ain't much difference between winnin' and losin', except for how the outside world treats you. But inside you, it's about all the same. It really is. Fact of the matter is, I believe that, uh, our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed. You know what I'm sayin'? We, all of us, dig our own holes.

Melissa: Are you gay?

Melissa: [to Ivory Christian] Is he gay?

Mike Winchell: I'm not gay.

Melissa: Can you prove it?

Brian Chavez: We got to lighten up. We're 17.

Don Billingsley: Do you feel 17?

Mike Winchell: I don't feel 17.

Mike Winchell: My mind's not right.

Don Billingsley: If I have anything to say about it tonight you're going to get drunk and you're going to get laid.

Mike Winchell: I'm not going out drunk and foolin'.

Mike Winchell: Hey Boobie, you didn't lift.

Boobie Miles: C'mon man. This is god given. The only thing I gotta do is show up.

Brian Chavez: We will win State.

Don Billingsley: Chavez, you're like a human pi"ata. You get your ass all beat more than anybody I know, and you just sit there and spit out candy.

Mike Winchell: That's because he's out of here. He's got the grades. And no matter what we win or loose he knows he's getting out. He's got one foot out the door, man.

Brian Chavez: Give me the gun.

Don Billingsley: [making fun of Chavez] You're going to be drinking martinis, eating lamb chops, getting manicures...

Brian Chavez: You're just jealous.

Don Billingsley: ...removing your freakin' shoes.

Mike Winchell: He designed his offense around one player. We're dead.

Brian Chavez: We're not dead. You just need to start throwing the ball.

Don Billingsley: We're dead.

Mike Winchell: This is for the state championship. I love all of ya'll, baby. I love all of ya'll.

Mike Winchell: [Deleted Scene] Did you think is was going to be this big?

Brian Chavez: Yeah.

Mike Winchell: Bullsh*t man.

Brian Chavez: I do.

Mike Winchell: You act like that. You think it's just a game. Something to check off on your list. Know what I think?

Brian Chavez: What's that?

Mike Winchell: I think you're scared just like the rest of us. But I think you're smart enough to see that one day when you look back from whatever big job or big house, or whatever it is that you got, that when you look back at this time, I dare you to beat it. I dare you.

Brian Chavez: It's just a game.

Don Billingsley: It doesn't feel like just a game to me.

Brian Chavez: So what's it feel like?

Don Billingsley: Feels like... feels like we're going to war.