Sanka Coffie [During the push-cart race]
I love Jamaica and Jamaica loves me!
Played by Doug E. Doug 
Cool Runnings (1993) · 73 quotes
Cool Runnings (1993) · 73 quotes
Most-quoted character in Cool Runnings (1993): in 39 of its 73 quotes
Most scenes with: Derice (17), Irv Blitzer (6), Yul Brenner (5)
What I am saying to you, is that you are the kind of club-toting, raw-meat-eating, Me-Tarzan-You-Jane-ing big bald bubblehead that can only count to ten if he's barefoot or wearing sandals.
More lines from Sanka Coffie
11 quotes Sanka Coffie Sanka Coffie Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, It's push-cart time...
Sanka Coffie Greetings, sled god.
Sanka Coffie Oooh, the back is nice!
Sanka Coffie Oh, this is good.
Sanka Coffie And you don't see the Swiss team smiling neither. In fact, if one of those Swiss boys ever came across a pretty girl he would probably yell 'eins, zwei, drei' and try to push her down some ice!
Sanka Coffie Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time! COOL RUNNINGS!
Sanka Coffie I'm freezing my royal Rastafarian nay-nays off!
Sanka Coffie Nobody had that much fun in a sled since Santa Claus.
Sanka Coffie I'm feeling very Olympic today, how about you? [Soviet team and other participants look at him]
Sanka Coffie All I'm saying, mon, is if we walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican, and is Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.
Scenes with Sanka Coffie
27 scenes
Kids
[Sanka's pushcart chant.]
Who's the captain of our crew? Who's a friend to me and you? Kinda nice, good lookin', too! Sanka, Sanka, yeah Sanka!
Sanka Ha ha ha ha, now get back to work!
Who's the big hot bag of air? Who doesn't have to comb his hair? Who doesn't bathe, and doesn't care? Sanka! Sanka! Yeah, Sanka!
Pushcart kid 1
Derice my grandfather said you are definiately going to make it to the Olympics. He says you're even faster than your father.
Pushcart kid 2
Yeah man, great for Jamaica.
Sanka Hey, you know what my grandfather said?
Kids
What?
Sanka GET BACK TO WORK!
Sanka Yeah man, oooh.
Are you sure no one can beat him?
Sanka Sure I'm sure, I'm just a little concerned about that big baldy.
Thats a bobsled.
Sanka Oh, so a bobsled is push-cart with no wheels.
Thats what it looks like here.
Sanka "Let me see that...Alright, the key elements to a successful sled team are a steady driver, and three strong runners to push off down the ice." ICE? Ice?
Well, it's kind of a winter sport, you know.
Sanka You mean winter, as in ice?
Maybe.
Sanka You mean winter, as in igloos and eskimos and penguins and ICE?
Possibly.
Sanka See ya.
Where you going?
Sanka I'm going to take a hot bath, I'm getting cold just thinking about all this ice.
Sanka Look star, let me tell you a little something alright. When you need something from me you don't have to hand me a bunch of lines. All you have to do is look at me in the eye and say, "Sanka you are my best friend and we have been through a whole heap together and I really, really need you."
Sanka alright, and you are my best friend, and we've been through a whole lot together.
Sanka Heap, heap!
Sorry man, whole heap together.
Sanka And I really, really need you.
And I really, really need you.
Sanka So, lets talk about this billsled team...
No, BOBsled team.
Sanka Whoever.
Gentlemen, a bobsled is a simple thing.
Sanka Yeah, so's a toilet!
You're crowding me slinky-head.
Hehe, slinky-head, that's a good one.
What are you laughing about?
Nothing.
If it wasn't for you rich boy, I'd be in the Olympics right now.
Sanka I don't know what you all are arguing about because Derice was going to beat both your butts anyway.
What are you talking about? How 'bout I beat your butt right now!
Sanka How about I draw a line down the middle of your head so it looks like a butt?
Sanka I know, I'm the driver right?
No, you're the brake man.
Sanka No, no I'm the driver.
No you're not, you're the brake man.
Sanka I'm the driver.
You're not, you're the brake man.
Sanka You don't understand, I am Sanka Coffie, I am the best push-cart driver in all of Jamaica, I must drive. Do you dig where I'm coming from?
Yeah I dig where you're coming from. Now dig where I'm coming from. I'm coming from two gold medals, I'm coming from nine world records in both the two and four-man events. I'm coming from ten years of intense competition with the best athletes in the world.
Sanka Thats a hell of a place to be coming from.
Sanka [Rapping]
Some people say you know them can't believe, Jamaica we have a bobsled team. We have a one Derice.
And a one Junior.
Yu... Sanka.
The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinters.
Team
Go to Olympics fight for Jamaica.
Sanka, whatcha smokin man?
Sanka I'm not smoking, I'm breathing.
Sanka Hey coach, I can't get my helmet on...
Sanka [Irv punches the helmet down onto his head.]
Oooh, thanks, Coach.
Sanka, you dead?
Sanka Yeah man.
You can pee now.
Sanka Oooh, too late...
You're going nowhere Sanka and you're thrilled to death about it. Well, you see me, you see me? I'm different, because I know exactly where I'm going. And after I, Yul Brenner win the Olympics and become famous I'm going to leave the island and live right down there.
Sanka [Laughing]
That's Buckingham Palace, you plan on living there you're going to have to marry the Queen.
Yul, thats where the Queen of England lives.
I can't believe your still cold man.
Sanka Cold?! I'm freezing my royal Rastafarian nay-nays off!
Sanka Maid service sir. Would you like your bed turned down? Mint? Perhaps I could dust your head?
Whatever is wrong with you is no little thing.
Sanka [Waking up Irv for the training run]
Rise and shine.
It's butt whipping time.
Ok guys, tonight's the night. Now in a few minutes you'll get a chance to do something no one in your country has ever done. Now I was going to save this for the Olympics but I figure if we're going to convince these judges that we are world-class sledders, than we have better look like world-class sledders. [unveils team uniforms]
Sanka [after examining his bodysuit]
I freeze in this.
Sanka So what are we going to name the sled?
How about, Taloola.
Rest of team
[Laughing]
Taloola.
Sanka Sounds like a two-dollar hooker. How'd you come up with that?
Hey, that's my mother's name. [Team converses in agreement]
Sanka [to Derice]
What's it gonna be, star? What are the people gonna be screaming when Jamaica takes the hill?
We say in kind, 'Cool Runnings.'
Beautiful, I like that.
Very strong.
Coach Irv
Very nice, but what exactly does it mean?
Cool runnings means, peace be to journey.
Team
[Toasting]
Cool Runnings.
Sanka [Toasting]
To the man in the orange suit.
Messenger
Excuse me...
Sanka [Toasting]
To the messenger.
Coach Irv
[Ashen-faced, after reading the letter]
We are officially...disqualified.
Now, a lot of coaches would be giving you one of those win-one-for-the-gipper speeches. I'm not good at that stuff, instead I thought I'd, uh, lead you in a psalm of inspiration. Let's bow our heads.
Sanka Who's the gipper?
Our father who art in Calgary, bobsled be thy name, thy kingdom come, gold medals won. On Earth as it is in turn Seven. Liberty and justice for Jamaica and Haile Selassie, Amen.
Sanka [Derice slaps the team as warm-up.]
What are you doing?
Thats what the Swiss do to psych themselves up.
Sanka They also make those little pocketknives too but I don't see you doing that.
You know, when the Swiss want to ge....[Team groans]
Sanka Ah, will you shut up about the damn Swiss! I mean, it was all that eins zwei drei nonsense that got us all nervous in the first place.
Hey man, look here, I'm just trying to get us off on the right foot.
Sanka Well the right foot for us is not the Swiss foot. I mean come on Derice, we can't be copying nobody else's style. We have our own style.
Kissing an egg is no kind of style. It's the Olympics here, it's no stupid push-cart derby. [Long pause]
Sanka Let me tell you something rasta, I didn't come up here to forget who I am and where I come from.
Neither did I, I'm just trying to be the best I can be.
Sanka So am I, and the best I can be is Jamaican. Look, Derice...I've known you since Julie Jeffreys asked to see your ding-a-ling and I'm telling you as a friend if we look Jamaican, walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican and IS Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.
Team
Some people say you know they can't believe, Jamaica we have a bobsled team. (2x)
Sanka We have a -
Yul, Derice, and Junior
one Derice.
Sanka And a one Junior. Yul Brenner and the man, Sanka.
Team
The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinter. Respect for the man, Irv Blitzer.
Sanka Derice, you dead?
No man, I'm not dead. But we have to finish the race.
Sanka Oh, so a bobsled is a pushcart with no wheels.
Sanka Let me see that, [Derice hands Sanka the book] Alright... "The key elements for a successful sled team are a steady driver and three strong runners to push off down the ice..." ICE? [to Derice] Ice!
Well... it's kind of a winter sport, ya know?
Sanka You mean winter, as in ICE?
Maybe.
Sanka You mean winter, as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ICE?
Possibly.
Sanka [hands the book back]
See ya.
Where you going?
Sanka I'm going to take a hot bath, I'm getting cold just thinking about all this ice.
No man, you're going to be part of my bobsled team.
Sanka What do you need me for?
Who is the best pushcart driver in all of Jamaica?
Sanka You're looking at him!
Then you gotta do it?
Sanka NO!
Hey man, you could be famous, you could have your picture on a Wheaties box. But you said no and that's alright because I don't need ya, everybody is gonna want to be on my bobsled team.
Sanka Look Star, let tell you a little somethin', alright? When you need somethin' from me, you don't have to hand me a bunch of lines. All you have to do is look at me in the eye and say, "Sanka, you are my best friend, we been through a whole heap together and I really, really need you."
Sanka, you right, and you are my best friend, and we been through a whole lot together...
Sanka Heap, heap.
Sorry man, whole heap together.
Sanka "And I really, really need you."
And I really really need you.
Sanka ...Forget it!
But you just said if I said that, mon...
Sanka Alright, alright, alright, alright, mon.
[They hug.]
Sanka [the team has just crashed in the medal run]
Derice! You dead?
No, man, I'm not dead. [removes his helmet] We have to finish the race.
[sees the team carrying the sled over the finish line, to applause and cheers from the crowd] [shakes Derice's hand]
Sehr gut, Jamaica. We'll see you in four years, ja?
Yeah, man.
We split. [they laugh and hug each other]
