Eight Men Out (1988)

John Cusack: Buck Weaver - The Team

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Quotes 

• Buck Weaver : I still get such a bang out of it. Playin' ball. Same as I did when I first come up. You get out there, and the stands are full, and everybody's cheerin'. It's like everybody in the world come to see you. Inside that, there's the players, and they're yakkin' it up. The pitcher throws, and you look for that pill, and suddenly, there's nothin' else in the ballpark but you and it. Sometimes, when you're feelin' right, there's a groove there, and the bat just eases into it and meets that ball. And when that bat meets that ball, and you can just feel that ball just give, and you know it's gonna go a long way, damn, if you don't feel like you're gonna live forever. I couldn't give that up. Not for nothin'.

• [Some New Jersey fans are arguing on whether a Hoboken outfielder is Joe Jackson (the outfielder is, in fact, Shoeless Joe)] 

  New Jersey Fan #1 : You ever see him play?

  New Jersey Fan #2 : Yeah, I saw pictures.

  New Jersey Fan #1 : Pictures

  [scoffs] 

  Buck Weaver : I saw him play.

  New Jersey Fan #1 : Yeah? What do you think?

  Buck Weaver : He was the best. Run, hit, throw... he was the best.

  New Jersey Fan #1 : So what do you think? Is it him?

  Buck Weaver : Nah. Those fellas are all gone now.

• Helen Weaver : [Buck Weaver is dressing for court]  You look handsome.

  Buck Weaver : I look like a future jailbird.

• [Albert Austrian is introducing his law partners to the Sox] 

  Austrian : Their names may not sound familiar, but I'd say that these men are the Ty Cobb, the Tris Speaker, and the Zack Wheat of the legal world.

  Buck Weaver : Who's the Babe Ruth?

  Austrian : That's me.

• Chick Gandil : So what's the story, Buck?

  Buck Weaver : What does it look like?

  Chick Gandil : It looked like you skunked out on us.

  Buck Weaver : Look, I haven't taken a nickel. I don't owe anybody a damn thing.

  Chick Gandil : We let you in on the meetings.

  Buck Weaver : Look, you just play your ball game, and I'll play mine, and we'll see how it comes out.

• Buck Weaver : You don't know who's tryin'. You don't know who's not.

  Helen Weaver : I wish I didn't know.

  Buck Weaver : Yeah, me neither.