Playbook's too slow. When I'm on the field, I just gotta feel it. I gotta let it out-
Tony D'Amato: That why you've been changing the plays?

No, I'm just trying to read the defense.
Tony D'Amato: I'm not talking about audibles, I'm talking about in the huddle. Look, when you change plays, you're showing disrespect to a lot of people...

[interjecting]

I don't mean disrespect, man.
Tony D'Amato: ...to people whom have worked over years. In this club, around this League, people sacrifice more than you'll ever know to be in here-

I'm trying to win, Coach! I ain't trying to disrespect nobody, but winnin' is the only thing I respect.
Tony D'Amato: Okay, son. I want you to listen very carefully, 'cause one day you'll realize this is the truest thing you've ever heard: This game... this game has got to be about more than winning. You're part of something here. Lombardi, Tittle, Sammy Baugh, Unitas, hundreds of great players! Those men on the wall? You're part of that, now. And on the way, I want you to cherish it, because when it's gone, it's gone, forever.

Y'know, when I look at them pictures, and the trophies and stuff, it just makes me sad. It's like a room full of ghosts. And when I'm done with this game, or this game is done with me, I don't wanna be no ghost on the wall, I wanna be more than that.
Tony D'Amato: [beat] Looks like, uh, Cap is gonna make it back in time for the playoffs.

What?
Tony D'Amato: I'm gonna start him.

[realizing]

I knew, that's, that's the only reason you got here, I knew you was gonna sell me out.
Tony D'Amato: Cap's the leader. He's a team player.

That's bullshit.
Tony D'Amato: He needed to-

That's such bullshit, he ain't half the athlete that I am! You look me in the eye and tell me that Cap is a better player.
Tony D'Amato: [nonchalantly] Cap's a better player.

Well, I guess it was somebody else out there that won the last two games, huh? I put the points on the board, he lost four in a row, I lead by doin' it!
Tony D'Amato: Yeah, you kicked ass, kid!

Yeah, I did.
Tony D'Amato: But I'll tell you something, Cap Rooney has been doing it for years.

And his time is over! And yours is too, unless you start taking some risk, and start playing this game the way it's played today, it's not about the pictures-
Tony D'Amato: Hey!

And trophies on the wall-
Tony D'Amato: I've been in this game for three decades, kid! I know football! And those men on the wall-

They wanted to win. Just like you do. You can feed the press and the fans the same old sacrifice and glory-of-the-game crap, you do it well. But I've been there. I've seen a long line of coaches just like you, all the way from college with that same old bullshit half-time speech.
Tony D'Amato: Bullshit?

Yes. Yes, it's bullshit, and you know all of it is bullshit, because it's about the money. Breaking in the TV contracts, fat cat boosting the signal on the sky boxes, the coaches trying to up their salaries, and the whole time, what you're lookin' for? You're looking for the next black stud to take you to the top ten. Get you in the ball game. It's the same way in the Pros. Except in the Pros, the field hands get paid.
Tony D'Amato: Come on, don't play that race card on me, kid. Twenty-five years I work with men of your colour.

Maybe it's not racism, maybe it's placism. Brother has to know his place, right boss?