Cool Runnings 1993 quotes, page 2

Derice

Thats a bobsled.

Sanka

Oh, so a bobsled is push-cart with no wheels.

Derice

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?

Derice

Well, it's kind of a winter sport, you know.

Sanka

You mean winter, as in ice?

Derice

Maybe.

Sanka

You mean winter, as in igloos and eskimos and penguins and ICE?

Derice

Possibly.

Sanka

See ya.

Derice

Where you going?

Sanka

I'm going to take a hot bath, I'm getting cold just thinking about all this ice.

Derice

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.

Derice

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.

Derice

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.

Derice

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.

Irv

Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.

Derice

Hey coach, how will I know if I'm enough?

Irv

When you cross that finish line, you'll know.

Irv

Gentlemen, a bobsled is a simple thing.

Sanka

Yeah, so's a toilet!

Irv

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?

Irv

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.

Irv

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

I freeze in this.

Handsome as a lion that one.

I could watch that backside all day.

Joy

Are you sure no one can beat him?

Sanka

Sure I'm sure, I'm just a little concerned about that big baldy.

Joy

That fool had better watch his mouth.

He'd better watch MORE than that.

Junior Bevil

Pride, Power...[Stops elevator] Father, when you look at me, what do you see?

Whitby Bevil Sr

I don't have time for games. Junior.

Junior

Tell me what you see, please!

Alright I'll tell you what I see. I see a lost little boy, who's lucky to have a father who knows what's best for him.

Junior

No, no, no, no you don't know what's best for me father. I am not a lost little boy father, I am a man and I'm an Olympian. I'm staying right here. [Elevator door closes with Junior's Father inside]

Yul

Junior Bevil. A bad-ass mother.

Junior

Alright father, listen here. You see, I have made up my mind I am going to be a bobsledder. Thats right, a bobsledder. Oh really? Well I'm sorry you feel that way, fine cut off my allowance. Because you see father, a man has got to do what a man has got to do.

Junior

Now you listen me buddy. I will not be talked to that way so you better come up with a damn good apology or else...

Josef Grool

Or else what? [shoves Junior Bevil] Eh Jamaica, or else what? Come on Jamaica, say something.

Yul

No problem, man. [punches Josef Grool]

Junior

What should I do? WHAT should I DO?

Josef Gruhl

Hey Jamaica, keep it down you are not owning this place.

Junior

Sorry sir, sorry I didn't mean to bother anyone.

What have you done to the police unit? I should arrest you. Who owns this thing?

Derice

We do, sir.

And who are you?

Derice

The Jamaican bobsled team, sir.

Derice my grandfather said you are definiately going to make it to the Olympics. He says you're even faster than your father.

Yeah man, great for Jamaica.

Sanka

Hey, you know what my grandfather said?

What?

Sanka

GET BACK TO WORK!