Professor Stephen Malley: You know, professors aren't teachers, they're salesman.
Janine Roth: Okay, so what do you sell?
Professor Stephen Malley: You, to you.
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.
Roy Hobbs: Pick me out a winner Bobby.
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?
Roy Hobbs: My life didn't turn out the way I expected.
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.
Gus Sands: If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind.
Roy Hobbs: To hit away.
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.
Roy Hobbs: I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.
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.
Pop Fisher: Batting practice tomorrow, be there.
Roy Hobbs: I have been. Every day.
Denys: I like animals. Nothing they do is half-hearted. Everything they do is for the first time: they hunt, they eat, they mate.
Denys: I won't be closer to you and I won't love you more because of a piece of paper.
Baron Bror Blixen: You could have asked, Denys.
Denys: I did. She said yes.
Meacham: There's magic in the woods, if you know where to look for it.
Carl: Forget it. It's a toy company.
Martin Bishop: Toy company my ass. That's laser fencing. There's high voltage around the perimeter. The whole building says go away.
Carl: So it's a code breaker.
Martin Bishop: No. It's THE code breaker. No more secrets.
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