The Natural Movie Quotes
Iris Gaines
You know, I believe we have two lives.
Roy Hobbs
How... what do you mean?
Iris Gaines
The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.
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Roy Hobbs
Pick me out a winner Bobby.
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Pop Fisher
You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer.
Roy Hobbs
My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.
Pop Fisher
Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.
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Pop Fisher
I'd have walked away from baseball and I'd have bought a farm.
Roy Hobbs
Nothing like a farm. Nothing like being around animals, fixing things. There's nothing like being in the field with the corn and the winter wheat. The greenest stuff you ever saw.
Pop Fisher
You know, my mother told me I ought to be a farmer.
Roy Hobbs
My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.
Pop Fisher
You're better than anyone I ever had. And you're the best goddamned hitter I ever saw. Suit up.
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Roy Hobbs
Some mistakes, I guess we never stop paying for.
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Pop Fisher
Batting practice tomorrow, be there!
Roy Hobbs
I have been. Every day.
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Red Blow
Pretty good food, huh?
Roy Hobbs
Damn good.
Red Blow
You can't spell it, but it eats pretty good, don't it?
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Ed Hobbs
You've got a gift Roy... but it's not enough - you've got to develop yourself. If you rely too much on your own gift... then... you'll fail.
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Roy Hobbs
My life didn't turn out the way I expected.
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Roy Hobbs
I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book.
Iris Gaines
And then?
Roy Hobbs
And then? And then when I walked down the street people would've looked and they would've said there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game.
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Pop Fisher
My ma urged me to get out of this game. When I was a kid, she pleaded with me. And I meant to, you know what I mean? But she died.
Red Blow
Tough.
Pop Fisher
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
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The Judge
I thought I could rely on your honor, Hobbs?
Roy Hobbs
You're about to.
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Pop Fisher
[looks up at the cloudy sky]
Blinding.
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Gus Sands
If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind.
Roy Hobbs
To hit away.
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Roy Hobbs
The only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it.
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Pop Fisher
People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!
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Pop Fisher
I shoulda been a farmer.
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Roy Hobbs
Red, it took me sixteen years to get here. You play me, and I'll give ya the best I got.
Red Blow
I believe ya.
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Iris Gaines
I believe we have two lives: the one we learn with, and the one we live with after that
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Roy Hobbs
I'll take some coffee, then.
[Hobbs finds ball and glove on couch after viewing framed photos placed on furniture]
Iris Gaines
It's my son's. he means the world to me. he's a great kid.
Roy Hobbs
I'll bet he is. I'd like to meet him.
Iris Gaines
He's coming pretty soon.
Roy Hobbs
Is he with his father?
Iris Gaines
No. His father lives in New York. But, I'm thinking he needs his father; he's at that age. He needs him.
Roy Hobbs
Sure. A father makes all the difference.
[looks at son's photo, turns to Hobbs and embraces him]
Iris Gaines
You gotta catch a train.
Roy Hobbs
I can stay.
Iris Gaines
I think you'd better go.
Roy Hobbs
Yeah. Okay.
Iris Gaines
Where to next?
Roy Hobbs
Boston. Sorry I missed your boy.
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Roy Hobbs
That day in Chicago; why did you stand up?
Iris Gaines
I didn't want to see you fail.
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Pop Fisher
Hobbs. I'm sending you down Hobbs, Class B ball. Tomorrow you go to the Great Lakes Assocaition.
Roy Hobbs
All right. You make the rules.
Pop Fisher
That's right, that's right and you ain't been playing by 'em. Don't you remember signing a contract!
Roy Hobbs
I remember signing a contract, to play ball not to be put to sleep by some two bit carney hypnotist! I won't do that Pop! I can't.
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Al
You guys. You know, people are always running down amazing things. This guy Hobbs, you ain't seen nothing yet. I got a feeling...
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Pop Fisher
I wanted to win that pennant worse than I wanted any goddamned thing in my life. You'd think I could just this once, wouldn't you? I didn't care nothing about the Series. Win or lose, I would have been satisfied.
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Pop Fisher
C'mon Hobbs, knock the cover off the ball!
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The Judge
I thought I could rely on your honor!
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Pop Fisher
[to his "best" pitcher who can't throw a strike]
Come on, Fowler! Throw strikes!
Red Blow
Fowler's killing worms, Pop.
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