The Rookie (2002)

Chad Lindberg: Joe David West

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Quotes 

• Joel De La Garza : Now, wait a minute... we start winning, you try out again.

  Jimmy : [sighs]  Last time I checked, scouts aren't looking for high school science teachers.

  Joe David West : Well, not many science teachers throw like you.

  Jimmy : It's gonna take a heckuva lot more than a couple of wins to get me to make a fool of myself.

  Joel De La Garza : Alright, what if we win district, huh? What if we win district and go to the state playoffs? Then?

  Jimmy : You serious?

  Joel De La Garza : Yeah, absolutely.

  Jimmy : You're serious?

  Joe David West : Yeah.

  Joaquin 'Wack' Campos : Yeah!

  Jimmy : And all I have to do is find some kind of tryout somewhere?

  Joaquin 'Wack' Campos : That's it, man!

  Jimmy : [clears throat]  Alright... IF we win district!

  [Team cheers and leaves for locker room] 

  Hunter : I don't get to tell Mom about this, do I?

• Jimmy : Anybody wanna tell me how we lost that game? Hmmm? No? How about taking a look at the numbers on that scoreboard out there? What do those numbers tell you?

  Joe David West : How to get ahold of Bo's Tire Barn?

  [team laughs, Jimmy pauses, obviously not amused] 

  Jimmy : You quit. You quit out there. You quit on me and, worse, you quit on yourselves. Now, what is it? You think we don't care about baseball around here? Think the school's gonna drop the program? You're just making it easy for 'em. Sad part is, I see it and you don't.