Coach Norman Dale: If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners.
Myra Fleener: A man your age comes to a place like this, either he's running away from something or he has nowhere else to go.
Coach Norman Dale: What I'm doing here has nothing to do with you.
Myra Fleener: Just stay away from Jimmy. I don't want him coaching in Hickory when he's fifty.
Wilbur 'Shooter' Flatch: Clete, you tell him. Sectionals of '33, one point down. Five, four, three, two, one, let 'er fly... in and out. Yeah, well, I was fouled.
Coach Norman Dale: My practices aren't designed for your enjoyment.
Wilbur 'Shooter' Flatch: I know everything there is to know about the greatest game ever invented.
Wilbur 'Shooter' Flatch: You gotta promise me you won't get kicked outta no more games.
Coach Norman Dale: Scout's honor.
Merle Webb: Let's win this one for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here.
Coach Norman Dale: What's gotten into you?
Strap Purl: The Lord! I can feel His strength.
Coach Norman Dale: Well... keep His strength in the dribble all right?
Coach Norman Dale: Welcome to Indiana basketball.
Coach Norman Dale: I would hope you would support who we are. Not, who we are not. These six individuals have made a choice to work, a choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line 23 nights for the next 4 months, to represent you, this high school. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team.
Coach Norman Dale: I love you guys.
Myra Fleener: Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place.
Coach Norman Dale: Why, do you have something against this place?
Jimmy Chitwood: I'll make it.
Coach Norman Dale: You know, if everyone is as nice as you, country hospitality is gonna get an awful name.
Myra Fleener: What a pleasant thing to say.
Coach Norman Dale: What's gotten into you?
Strap Purl: The Lord, I can feel his strength.
Coach Norman Dale: Well keep your strength in the dribble, all right?
