Gus Sands
[trying to pay off Hobbs to tank]
If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind.
To hit away.
Roy Hobbs
Robert Redford · 11 quotes
Pop Fisher
Wilford Brimley · 6 quotes
Ed Hobbs
Alan Fudge · 1 quote
Most scenes together: Roy Hobbs & Pop Fisher (3)
The Natural quotes
The Judge I thought I could rely on your honor, Hobbs?
You're about to.
Iris Gaines You know, I believe we have two lives.
How... what do you mean?
Iris Gaines The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.
Max Mercy You read my mind.
That takes all of three seconds.
Batting practice tomorrow, be there!
I have been. Every day.
Hobbs. I'm sending you down Hobbs, Class B ball. Tomorrow you go to the Great Lakes Association.
All right. You make the rules.
That's right, that's right and you ain't been playing by 'em. Don't you remember signing a contract!
I remember signing a contract, to play ball not to be put to sleep by some two bit carney hypnotist! I won't do that Pop! I can't.
I'd have walked away from baseball and I'd have bought a farm.
Nothing like a farm. Nothing like being around animals, fixing things. There's nothing like being in the field with the corn and the winter wheat. The greenest stuff you ever saw.
You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer.
My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.
Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.
My ma urged me to get out of this game. When I was a kid, she pleaded with me. And I meant to, you know what I mean? But she died.
Red Blow Tough.
Now look at me. I'm wet nurse to a last-place, dead-to-the-neck-up ball club, and I'm choking to death!
I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book.
Iris Gaines And then?
And then? And then when I walked down the street people would've looked and they would've said there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game.
Red, it took me sixteen years to get here. You play me, and I'll give ya the best I got.
Red Blow I believe ya.
I wanted to win that pennant worse than I wanted any goddamned thing in my life. You'd think I could just this once, wouldn't you? I didn't care nothing about the Series. Win or lose, I would have been satisfied.
People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!
Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for.
You've got a gift Roy... but it's not enough - you've got to develop yourself. If you rely too much on your own gift... then... you'll fail.