The Natural

Roy Hobbs:
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.

Pop Fisher:
C'mon Hobbs, knock the cover off the ball!

Roy Hobbs:
I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book.

Iris Gaines:
And then?

Roy Hobbs:
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.

Pop Fisher:
Batting practice tomorrow, be there!

Roy Hobbs:
I have been. Every day.

Roy Hobbs:
I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

Roy Hobbs:
My life didn't turn out the way I expected.

Pop Fisher:
You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer.

Roy Hobbs:
My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.

Pop Fisher:
Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.

Iris Gaines:
You know, I believe we have two lives.

Roy Hobbs:
How... what do you mean?

Iris Gaines:
The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

The Judge:
I thought I could rely on your honor!

Max Mercy:
You read my mind.

Roy Hobbs:
That takes all of two seconds.

Gus Sands:
If it isn't enough, tell us what you had in mind.

Roy Hobbs:
To hit away.

Roy Hobbs:
Pick me out a winner Bobby.

Pop Fisher:
I shoulda been a farmer.

Pop Fisher:
People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!

Roy Hobbs:
The only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it.

Pop Fisher:
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.

Pop Fisher:
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!

Roy Hobbs:
I guess some mistakes you never stop paying for.

Pop Fisher:
People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!

Ed Hobbs:
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.

Pop Fisher:
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.

Pop Fisher:
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!

Roy Hobbs:
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.

Pop Fisher:
Hobbs. I'm sending you down Hobbs, Class B ball. Tomorrow you go to the Great Lakes Association.

Roy Hobbs:
All right. You make the rules.

Pop Fisher:
That's right, that's right and you ain't been playing by 'em. Don't you remember signing a contract!

Roy Hobbs:
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.

Pop Fisher:
Batting practice tomorrow, be there!

Roy Hobbs:
I have been. Every day.

Pop Fisher:
You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer.

Roy Hobbs:
My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.

Pop Fisher:
Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.

Max Mercy:
You read my mind.

Roy Hobbs:
That takes all of three seconds.

Roy Hobbs:
I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book.

Iris Gaines:
And then?

Roy Hobbs:
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.

Iris Gaines:
You know, I believe we have two lives.

Roy Hobbs:
How... what do you mean?

Iris Gaines:
The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

The best there was!

Boyhood dreams, a bat made from a tree struck by lightning and most importantly, a never-ending passion for the game.

He lived for a dream that wouldn't die.

From an age of innocence comes a hero for today.

Pop Fisher:
I'd have walked away from baseball and I'd have bought a farm.

Roy Hobbs:
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.

Pop Fisher:
You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer.

Roy Hobbs:
My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.

Pop Fisher:
Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.

You're standing close. I can't tell

if it's your toes I'm feeling or mine.

Pop Fisher:
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.