Robert Redford credited as playing...
Roy Hobbs
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 mother told me I ought to be a farmer.
- Roy Hobbs: My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.
- Pop Fisher: You're better than anyone I ever had. And you're the best goddamned hitter I ever saw. Suit up.
- 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.
- Roy Hobbs: I'll take some coffee, then.
- [Hobbs finds ball and glove on couch after viewing framed photos placed on furniture]
- Iris Gaines: It's my son's. he means the world to me. he's a great kid.
- Roy Hobbs: I'll bet he is. I'd like to meet him.
- Iris Gaines: He's coming pretty soon.
- Roy Hobbs: Is he with his father?
- Iris Gaines: No. His father lives in New York. But, I'm thinking he needs his father; he's at that age. He needs him.
- Roy Hobbs: Sure. A father makes all the difference.
- Iris Gaines: [music starts as she turns her gaze away from the conversation and whispers] Yeah.
- [looks at son's photo, turns to Hobbs and embraces him]
- Iris Gaines: You gotta catch a train.
- Roy Hobbs: I can stay.
- Iris Gaines: I think you'd better go.
- Roy Hobbs: Yeah. Okay.
- Iris Gaines: Where to next?
- Roy Hobbs: Boston. Sorry I missed your boy.
- Pop Fisher: Hobbs. I'm sending you down Hobbs, Class B ball. Tomorrow you go to the Great Lakes Assocaition.
- 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.