- Tommy: Do you think there is any hope for Northern Ireland?
- Irene: "Any hope for Northern Ireland?" McMarty's butcher shop got blown up today. Best bloody butchers in Belfast. It's a disgrace. And you ask if there is any hope for Northern Ireland.
- Tommy: Who blew it up?
- Irene: Who do you think?
- Tommy: But why?
- Irene: God knows son. Maybe they didn't like his sausages.
- Wigsy: [coming out of the church in Mexico and seeing the Northern Ireland team heading in]
- Wigsy: Lads! It's us. There is no point batting and fighting your way trough all them cathoholics. Me and Spud here have lit about thirty candles. That's gonna cover the whole bench and all.
- Pat Jennings: Fair play to yous, lads.
- Spud: [shaking hands with the players] Scary. Me and him's Protestants.
- Pat Jennings: Sorry to hear that.
- Spud: Thanks, Pat.
- Wigsy: But God is God, and a candle's a candle. Who is going to know what religion you are around here? Although, back home me and him'll be history, no questions asked.
- Billy Bingham: Socrates might have brought down a government, but have we lived through in the last twenty years, and survived, huh? Bombing, shootig, rioting, murder and mayhem. You don't think he is more scared of us?
- Rebecca Bingham: I've just been on the phone to my mum. She said it's been on the news that the whole of Ireland is behind you.
- Billy Bingham: I hope you didn't spend too long on the phone.
- Rebecca Bingham: Well, I would have said to carry a pidgeon, love. I just couldn't find one in reception... Bill, wouldn't it be great if the team were mixed? Catholics and protestants.
- Billy Bingham: What are you suggesting? That I choose my players on the grounds of their religion? I decide on skill. It's a football team, not a bloody peace agreement.
- [conversation on the telephone]
- Jim Cambell: You're on the squad. You're on the squad for Mexico.
- David Campbell: What? Sure the announcement isn't until tomorrow.
- Jim Cambell: Aye, you know that place - has more leaks than the Titanic.
- David Campbell: Sure, Bingham doesn't even know me. I've never even met him.
- Jim Cambell: Yeah, but he has watched you play. Maybe he thinks it's time for fresh blood. Or maybe he just needs another Catholic.
- David Campbell: Do you remember us sneaking through the railings to play in the grounds?
- Jim Cambell: Aye, there's not many pros that can say they were trained in the grounds of a loony bin.
- Jackie Fullerton: [on TV] What's standing in their way is the greatest captain of them all. One was short, fat and famously ugly, the other is handsome and tall. One skulked about in a grubby robe and sandals, the other shines in the sun yellow shirt of Brazil. Both men are called Socrates. Both men are philosophers.
- Billy Bingham: Go out there and play your hearts out. Do it for your country. Do it for big Pat's birthday. We can do this. We can bring joy to the streets of Northern Ireland. We do this, and you'll be legends until the day you die.
- Jackie Fullerton: If Spain loose and our boys win, we're through. Unless Algeria beats Spain by more goals than we beat Brazil.
- Albert kirk: Assuming that we beat Brazil?
- Jackie Fullerton: Albert, with that kind of attitude anyone would think you were English.
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