The Natural (1984)

Robert Redford: Roy Hobbs

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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.

• Roy Hobbs : Pick me out a winner Bobby.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Pop Fisher : Batting practice tomorrow, be there!

  Roy Hobbs : I have been. Every day.

• Roy Hobbs : I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

• Roy Hobbs : My life didn't turn out the way I expected.

• 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?

• The Judge : I thought I could rely on your honor, Hobbs?

  Roy Hobbs : You're about to.

• Gus Sands : If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind.

  Roy Hobbs : To hit away.

• Roy Hobbs : The only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it.

• 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.

• 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.

  Iris Gaines : [music starts as she turns her gaze away from the conversation and whispers]  Yeah.

  [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.

• Roy Hobbs : That day in Chicago; why did you stand up?

  Iris Gaines : I didn't want to see you fail.

• 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.

• Max Mercy : You read my mind.

  Roy Hobbs : That takes all of three seconds.