Other Titles • For Love of the Game • Aus Liebe zum Spiel (2000)
Quotes from For Love of the Game (1999)
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Vin Scully: After 19 years in the big leagues, 40 year old Billy Chapel has trudged to the mound for over 4000 innings. But tonight, he's pitching against time, he's pitching against the future, against age, against ending. Tonight, he will make the fateful walk to the loneliest spot in the world, the pitching mound at Yankee Stadium, to push the sun back into the sky and give us one more day of summer.
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[repeated line - his trick for concentration] Billy Chapel: Clear the mechanism.
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[Billy and Jane have sex in her bed for the first time, and Billy finds a flashlight by his feet] Jane Aubrey: It's not mine. Billy Chapel: You mean it doubles as a flashlight?
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Jane Aubrey: I need a regular guy. Not the guy in the Old Spice commercials. Billy Chapel: It was Right Guard. Jane Aubrey: What? Billy Chapel: It was Right Guard, not Old Spice. Jane Aubrey: I was being metaphorical.
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Jane Aubrey: Do you lose very much? Billy Chapel: I lose. I've lost 134 times. Jane Aubrey: You count them? Billy Chapel: We count everything.
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Billy Chapel: The game doesn't stink, Mr. Wheeler. It's a great game.
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Heather: So, are you my mom's boyfriend? Billy Chapel: I'm not sure. Heather: But you've slept with her.
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[to himself, pitching to a Yankee batter] Billy Chapel: Sam Tuttle. I can't think of a better reason not to be a Yankee.
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[while helping a traded teammate move] Billy Chapel: I ain't carryin' no books. Where's the pillows?
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Jane Aubrey: What if my face was all scraped off and I was totally disfigured and had no arms and legs and I was completely paralyzed. Would you still love me? Billy Chapel: No. But we could still be friends.
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Billy Chapel: I don't know if I have anything left. Gus Sinski: You just throw whatever you got, whatever's left. The boys are all here for you. We're gonna be awesome for you right now!
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Gus Sinski: You know, a lot of little bottles makes a big bottle, Chapy
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Jane Aubrey: So, when you're away, I'll live my life and you'll live yours. And none of this stupid bullshit "why didn't you call me?" crap. And "what you do when you're not with me has nothing to do with me" and vice versa. No questions asked, no worrying, no obsessing. Billy Chapel: That sounded perfect.
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Vin Scully: The cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a Chapel.
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[writing on a baseball] Billy Chapel: Tell them I'm through, "for the love of the game", Billy Chapel
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Billy Chapel: [consoling Mickey Hart after an embarrasing play] There's a bunch of cameras out there right now waiting to make a joke of this, Mick. So you can either stop, give them the sound bite, do the dance. Or you can hold your head up and walk by, and the next time we're in Boston, we'll go out there and work the wall together. Don't help them make a joke out of you.
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Jane Aubrey: You ever gotten your heart broken? Billy Chapel: Yeah. When we lost the pennant in '87.
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Frank Perry: [Billy Chapel is warming up in the bullpen before the game] Well, since you're throwing bullets, I'm not even gonna mention the fact that you're an hour late, and I have been standing here trying to figure out who my starting pitcher would be if you didn't show up. Billy Chapel: Have I ever not showed? In the 19 years, have I ever not showed? Frank Perry: Well, that's true of everyone until the first time they don't show.
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