http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/fea...26/theyre_no1/

Since we went off on a movie quote tangent on Larks' "UC vs. Zags..." thread, here's on for ya.

"We trust that you're a fine, upstanding, God-fearing man with Christian morals and principals, who will set an example and a standard of leadership for our boysÂ… tell me, do you believe in zone defense or man to man?"

VERY NICE WEB SIT!
you are doing great job!

http://www.4boredom.com/movies/saddamplaysgames.swf

"Hoosiers," maybe the best sports movie evver made.

BTW, I posted before I went to the site! :)



[Edited by BktBallRef on Mar 27th, 2003 at 04:47 PM]

Best line in Hoosiers:

"Strap, you're going in for ____...DON"T shoot the ball unless you're under the basket all by yourself, understand?"

I always chuckle at that one.

I love Hoosiers, also. One overlooked movie (SI.com gave it an honorable mention) is the boxing flick, "They Harder They Fall", with Humphrey Bogart as a washed up sportswriter who takes a PR job promoting a stiff from South America (based on Primo Carnera) and Rod Steiger playing the promoter.

It's a real graphic inside view of the dirty side of the fight game. Also features real fighters Max Baer and Jersey Joe Wolcott (as a trainer).

Here are some pictures from my favorite sports movie (and part of a great, great 2 book series). And here's a quote from the movie:

"From now on, I rag nobody."

Name it? The winner gets a little known but interesting bit of trivia.

http://www.boxoff.com/jpg/classic/tji/bangthedrum.jpg
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/fea...bang_lg-01.jpg

DeNiro was great in "Bang The Drum Slowly".

Which came out in what year?

Who is the other actor pictured?

1973

Quote:

Who is the other actor pictured?

Michael Moriarty, who went on to star in TV's Law And Order for many years.

He actually had hair! http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/hitler.gif

Here's one for you. Who was Max Baer's son and what famous role did he play?

OK, more trivia: In Bang the Drum Slowly Bruce Pearson had the same number as a real life catcher who also died young.
Name & number please?

Brain surgeon in training Jethro Clampett.

Actually, it was double-naught spy Jethro Bodine.

One of my favorite sports movie quotes is the dialogue from "The Natural", at the end of the movie, between Roy Hobbs (Redford) and the coach (Wilfred Brimley). I don't remember it verbatim, but it goes something like...

Coach: My mom wanted me to be a farmer.
Hobbs: My dad wanted me to be a ballplayer.

Coach looks at Hobbs briefly.

Coach: Well, you're the best player I ever had. And, you're the best damn hitter I've ever seen. Go suit up.

Awesome. I never get tired of that piece of dialogue. I get goose bumps just typing it.

Yes, it's a chick flick, but I've always loved this exchange.

When confronted about leaving the team:

Geena Davis: It just got too hard.
Tom Hanks: It's supposed to be hard. If it was easy, everybody'd do it. The hard is what makes it great.

"She's crying, sir."

"Perhaps you chastise her to vehemently. Rule of thumb, treat each of them as you would treat your mother."

"You know, you look like a penis with that little hat on." :D

How can i put pic' with my message?
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME?thank you.
David

David - you can put a link to a pic on the internet in your message or your signature by typing img the total url of the link /img and by putting the img and the /img in brackets. I could not type it out that way here because then the program would have thought I wanted to link to a graphic and the letters would not have appeared here. The programming of this board does not allow you to just copy and paste a pic.

If you forget how to do this, go to someone's post who has a link and hit the "quote" button. Their code then is revealed and the method of linking is shown.

[Edited by Mark Padgett on Mar 28th, 2003 at 10:53 AM]

THANK'S MARK!
as alwayes you are the first to help me..
Ã*ðé ùåðÃ* Ã*åúê JRutledge

Not from a great movie, but a good piece of dialogue.



Parkman: What do you call that garbage?
Vaughn: That's called the eliminator.
Parkman: The eliminator...?
Vaughn: I got a new one I'll show ya...you get a piece of it, I'll
let you name it.
(Vaughn pitches the ball and Parkman hits it out of the stadium.)
Parkman: I'd call it the masturbator.

Another one..

Heywood: Jesus Taylor, they brought you back?

Taylor: Yeah...I couldn't cut it in the Mexican League.

Heywood: (chuckles) So..how's your wife and my kids?

one of the best i have ever saw..is the movie with this strong line:"they will remember forever the night they played the titans "...
one of the best!!
Ã*ðé ùåðÃ* Ã*åúê JRutledge

There's no crying in baseball. There's no crying in baseball!!!

You people quoting "A League of Their Own" should be embarrassed, and you know it. Putting quotes from that movie in the same universe as Hoosiers or The Natural is just plain wrong!

Hey Trigger, at least I apologized for it. :) And that one line, delivered by Hanks is one of the best quotes about baseball ever, even if did appear in the same film with Madonna.

Chuck