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Any Given Sunday Page #7
I'm trying to win, coach!
I ain't trying to disrespect nobody.
Winning is the only thing I respect.
Listen very carefully.
One day you'll realize this is
the truest thing you ever heard.
This game....
This game has got to be
about more than winning.
You're part of something.
Lombardi, Tittle, Sammy Baugh, Unitas.
Those men on the wall.
You're part of that now.
I want you to cherish it
because when it's gone...
...it's gone forever.
When I look at them pictures
and trophies, it just makes me sad.
It's like a room full of ghosts.
When I'm done with this game...
...I don't want to be no ghost.
I wanna be more than that.
Looks like Cap's gonna make it
back in time for the playoffs.
-What?
I knew you were gonna sell me out.
Cap's a leader. He's a team player.
That's such bullshit!
He ain't half the athlete I am.
You look me in the eye and tell me
that Cap is a better player.
Cap's a better player.
won them last two games.
He lost four in a row!
I lead by doing.
You kicked ass.
But Cap Rooney has been doing it
for years.
And his time is over.
And yours is too,
unless you take some risk!
Play this game the way
it's played today.
It's not about
the pictures on the wall!
I've lived this game
for three decades, kid!
I know football.
-Those men on the wall--
-They wanted to win.
Just like you do.
You can feed the press that whole
sacrifice and glory-of-the-game crap.
But I been there.
I seen a long line of coaches...
...with that same old bullshit
halftime speech.
-Bullshit?
-Yes, it's bullshit.
You know it's bullshit
because it's about the money.
The TV contracts,
fat-cat boosters in the skyboxes.
Coaches trying to up their salaries.
You looking for the next black stud
to take it to the top 10.
Get you in a bowl game.
It's the same way in the pros.
Except in the pros,
Don't play that race card on me, kid.
of your color.
Maybe it's not racism.
Maybe it's placism.
Brother has to know his place.
Right, boss?
I don't understand
what you're talking about.
You don't trust anybody
because of what happened in college?
You knew the rules.
You were the one that broke them.
-How did I break them?
-How?
I lost a million-dollar
signing bonus...
...because I took a $300 suit
from a booster to go to a wedding.
What's a brother supposed to do
in college? He ain't got money.
He wants to go out on a date.
Wants to get some nice clothes.
Everybody had their hands out...
...but it was me they suspended.
I dropped six rounds in the draft
because of that.
The coaches labeled me: "He's trouble.
He don't wanna play ball."
You talk about sacrifice.
I sacrificed $10 million because dumb
rednecks like the coach in San Diego...
...made me a cornerback
because I got quick feet.
He separated my shoulder tackling
I don't do that!
I was a great football player.
But nobody let my shoulder heal,
and they traded me out of there.
You go ahead.
Blame everybody but yourself.
Whatever.
Because that's what a leader's about.
Sacrifice.
The times he's gotta sacrifice
because he's gotta lead by example.
Not by fear and not by self-pity.
Who you think you're talking to?
Half my career is over
and you want me on the bench...
...to sacrifice for the glory
of Cap Rooney? F*** you!
I ain't buying your brand.
Just because you some scared old man.
You feel like if I play my way,
I just might win.
Then what was your life about anyway?
You're not some flash-in-the-pan
corner or receiver...
...or even Julian Washington.
You're a goddamn quarterback!
You know what that means?!
It's the top spot, kid.
It's the guy takes the fall.
It's the guy everybody's looking at
first, the leader of a team.
Who will support you
when they understand you.
Who will break their ribs and their
noses and their necks for you...
...because they believe.
Because you make them believe.
That's a quarterback.
I'm the leader of your team...
...till Cap's back up.
Then I'm back on the bench.
You ain't said two words to me
till Cherubini went down.
Then it was, "Go out there and...
...play like you're in the 'hood.
You're throwing the ball...
...and your mama's
ringing the dinner bell."
All you do is talk at me, man.
I'm gonna stay who I am.
Steamin' Willie Beamen.
With the time I got left,
I'll play my way. Get my dollars up.
So when you go to waive me, trade me
or whatever the f*** y'all do...
...I'll be worth 10 times what
I was worth before I got here.
You're very, very young.
And you're very, very stupid.
What're you doing? Get off the lawn!
It's Mr. Beamen. Willie, how you doing?
It's about winning. That's what this
country's about. Being number one.
African ass, Chinese ass.
Don't matter who ass.
Get the f*** out!
Get the f*** out of here, b*tch!
Every kid can grow up
to be President, right?
Who the hell want to grow up
and be vice president?
There ain't no number twos
in football.
Homeboy! Welcome to the pit!
You come to my house,
you bring me no flowers?
You played me.
Blowj*bs upstairs. If you want
the skin, trawl the beach.
Don't mess the sheets.
My wife's back on Tuesday.
-I won't spill a drop.
-Hey, no semen, no blood.
Goddamn!
You tell me.
Who lost the Pantheon Cup last year?
Who came in second
at the 100-yard dash in the Olympics?
Where I'm from, either you're
number one, or you ain't sh--!
That's a fact.
Did you get
He was in my face
like we lost the game.
I got out of Dallas because
I worked harder than anybody else.
You make it and get the big car,
or you don't and catch the bus...
...and you in the funeral home,
because to me, losing is dying.
"Losing is dying".
I am down with that!
I think we'd be top dog
Lay off the D, man. Shark hear you
saying that, he'll kick your ass.
Like I give a f***.
I'm trying to win some games.
I ain't trying to kiss
no overrated loser's ass.
What you care about?
You playing for yourself.
What you talking about, punk?
You gotta earn the right
to diss somebody on this team.
You call this a team?
I see a bunch of super-fly
brothers running around...
...living in the white man's world...
...getting their d*cks sucked by ho's.
J, you were a great football player.
Now you done turn into a joke.
You're playing,
but you're dying inside.
What the f*** you mean,
I'm dying inside?
Kiss my Armani ass! Know what I did for
this team? I'll take your life, man!
Football is a corporation.
Black kids are raised
to be stars, individuals.
They do not learn to work together.
-Beamen's talking sh*t about you.
-What?!
Talking about how we'd be on top
if the defense would do their job.
F***ing kidding me!
Motherf***er! I'll break a piece
off in his goddamn ass!
What the f*** is wrong with you,
motherf***er?!
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