The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

Will Smith: Bagger Vance

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• Bagger Vance : Yep... Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing... Somethin' we was born with... Somethin' that's ours and ours alone... Somethin' that can't be taught to ya or learned... Somethin' that got to be remembered... Over time the world can, rob us of that swing... It get buried inside us under all our wouldas and couldas and shouldas... Some folk even forget what their swing was like...

• Bagger Vance : What I'm talkin about is a game... A game that can't be won only played...

  Rannulph Junuh : You don't understand...

  Bagger Vance : I don't need to understand... Ain't a soul on this entire earth ain't got a burden to carry he don't understand, you ain't alone in that... But you been carryin' this one long enough... Time to go on... lay it down...

  Rannulph Junuh : I don't know how...

  Bagger Vance : You got a choice... You can stop... Or you can start...

  Rannulph Junuh : Start?

  Bagger Vance : Walkin...

  Rannulph Junuh : Where?

  Bagger Vance : Right back to wehre you always been... and then stand there... Still... real still... And remember...

  Rannulph Junuh : It's too long ago...

  Bagger Vance : Oh no sir it was just a moment ago... Time for you to come on out the shadows Junuh... Time for you to choose...

  Rannulph Junuh : I can't...

  Bagger Vance : Yes you can... but you ain't alone... I"m right here with ya... I've been here all along... Now play the game... Your game... The one that only you was meant to play... Then one that was given to you when you come into this world... You ready?... Stike that ball Junuh don't hold nothin back give it everything... Now's the time... Let yourself remember... Remember YOUR swing... That's right Junuh, settle yourself... Let's go... Now is the time, Junuh...

• Bagger Vance : Inside each and every one of us is our one, true authentic swing. Something we was born with. Something that's ours and ours alone. Something that can't be learned... something that's got to be remembered.

• Rannulph Junnah : This is getting embarrassing.

  Bagger Vance : Oh no sir, this has been embarrassing for quite some time.

• Bagger Vance : See, the trick is... to find your swing...

  Rannulph Junuh : What'd you say?...

  Bagger Vance : Well you lost your swing... We got to go find it... Now it's somewhere... in the harmony... of all that is... All that was... All that will be...

• Bagger Vance : You wanna quit Mr. Junuh? You know you can just go ahead and creep off somewhere I'll tell folk you took sick... Truth be told, ain't nobody gonna really object... In fact, they'd probably be happy as bugs in a bake shop to see you pack up and go home...

  Rannulph Junuh : You know I can't quit

  Bagger Vance : I know... Just makin sure you know it too...

• Bagger Vance : Put your eyes on Bobby Jones... Look at his practice swing, almost like he's searchin for something... Then he finds it... Watch how he settle hisself right into th emiddle of it, feel that focus... He got a lot of shots he could choose from... Duffs and tops and skulls, there's only ONE shot that's in perfect harmony with the feild... One shot that's his, authentic shot, and that shot is gonna choose him... There's a perfect shot out there tryin' to find each and every one of us... All we got to do is get ourselves out of its way, to let it choose us... Can't see that flag as some dragon you got to slay... You got to look with soft eyes... See the place where the tides and the seasons and the turnin' of the Earth, all come together... where everything that is, becomes one... You got to seek that place with your soul Junuh... Seek it with your hands don't think about it... Feel it... Your hands is wiser than your head ever gonna be... Now I can't take you there Junuh... Just hopes I can help you find a way... Just you... that ball... that flag... and all you are...

• Rannulph Junuh : What were you doing out there? I could have killed you.

  Bagger Vance : Nah, actually, I positioned myself right in front of you, 'cause from the way your swings were goin', I figured that was the safest place.

• Bagger Vance : I hear you lost your swing. I guess we got to go find it.

• Rannulph Junuh : I can't do it, Bagger. It was too long ago!

  Bagger Vance : No it wasn't. It was just a moment ago.

• Rannulph Junuh : You a caddy?

  Bagger Vance : Uh, that depends. You a golfer?

• Bagger Vance : Don't make no sense is all... Man say he don't play no golf when he out here this shade of night hittin balls off in the dark where he can't even see 'em...

  Rannulph Junuh : Yep... Well, I've done things that have made less sense...

  Bagger Vance : As we all have...

• Rannulph Junuh : This is getting embarassing.

  Bagger Vance : Oh no sir, this has been embarassing for quite some time.

• Rannulph Junnah : I could have killed you out there.

  Bagger Vance : Oh no sir, see I set myself directly in front of ya. Judgin' how you were hittin' them balls that's where I figure I'd be out of harms way.

• Bagger Vance : Yeah, I always felt a man's grip on his club just like a man's grip on his world...

• Rannulph Junuh : Anything else?

  Bagger Vance : Just bash the living shit out of it.

• Bagger Vance : Yeah the rythm of the game just like the rythm of life...

• Bagger Vance : Five dollars guaranteed.