Forever Strong (2008)

Gary Cole: Coach Larry Gelwix

Quotes 

• Coach Larry Gelwix : Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easiER.

• Coach Larry Gelwix : You boys might think I coach because, uh, I love rugby and I love to win - both true - but I KEEP coaching because of you guys. That's why I'm more interested in turning out champion boys than champion teams. I want you to be forever strong on the field so you'll be forever strong off it.

• Coach Larry Gelwix : Rick Penning? It's Important for you know right up front: You spend a whole lotta time in the gym, you work your hardest with a complete commitment to do your best, you eat smart, get enough sleep, and you work your tail off, and someday... someday you can have a body like mine.

• Coach Larry Gelwix : We're about winning, gentlemen, and not just in rugby. For that reason, you will obtain a laserlike focus on and off the field. That means discipline over every part of your life. So, if you want "easy," play lacrosse or football or... join the Marines. Welcome, gentlemen, to Highland Rugby.

• Coach Larry Gelwix : Rick, I want to ask you to be a captain.

  Rick Penning : But, uh, Q's already captain.

  Coach Larry Gelwix : We always have at least two.

  Rick Penning : But he can't stand me - the same with half the guys out there.

  Coach Larry Gelwix : This isn't about them. It's about you. It's about being the best Rick.

  Rick Penning : But what about Tumo?

  Coach Larry Gelwix : He and three or four other guys came to me, suggesting you. The team doesn't get this kind of stuff wrong.

• Coach Larry Gelwix : Son, when are you gonna dig down and first-string the real Rick Penning?

• Rick Penning : I don't get it. You know exactly why I'm here and you still act like you care. I'm just a no good spy who cheap-shotted your star player last year.

  Coach Larry Gelwix : First of all, I attribute that cheap shot to your coach, not you; and, second, let's focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are; and - God doesn't make a no-good ANYTHING. You just got to learn to listen and pay attention to that spirit inside you. And learning to listen - that takes a lot of discipline.