“Junior Bevill: Seeming to you nobody likes us? Yul Brenner: We're different. People are always afraid of what's different.”Tagged: different, fear of difference
“Derice Bannock: [Derice sees Sanka's breath in the cold Calgary air] Sanka mon, whatcha smoking? Sanka Coffie: I'm not smoking, I'm breathing!”Tagged: smoking, condensation, Calgary
“Irv: Hi, I'd like to register for the tryouts. Registration Official: What country? Irv: Uh... [clears throat] Jamaica. Registration Official: [smiles] What country? Irv: Jamaica. Registration Official: [stops smiling and enters the information] Huh, what do you know? A Jamaican bobsled team.”Tagged: bobsledding, jamaica
“This is what it's all about, this is whether you win or lose the race, right here in the push start! This is where you're gonna practice, right here, right here in a Volkswagen!”Tagged: bobsledding, Volkswagen
“It's not so much the heat, it's the humidity that'll kill you.”Tagged: Heat, Humidity, Blizzard, Irony
“Winning a bobsled race is about one thing: the push-start. Now I know you dainty, little track stars think you're fast. Well, heh, let's see how fast you are when you push a six-hundred pound sled. Now a respectable start-time is five-point-seven seconds. If you speed demons can't whip off an even…”Tagged: bobsledding, track stars, Dainty, respectable, barbershop quartet
“All right, Derice. Let me lay out some difficulties for you. Snow: you don't have any. It's nine hundred degrees out there. Time: you don't have any. The Olympics are in three months. And me: you don't have me. As far as I'm concerned, the sport of bobsledding no longer exists. I don't want to do…”Tagged: olympics, Time, bobsledding
“Irwin Blitzer: Gentlemen, a bobsled is a simple thing. Man: Yeah, so's a toilet!”Tagged: bobsled, Simple, Toilet, Analogies
“Irv: I told the owner of the bar that these guys were mentally disturbed, so he's not going to press any charges. Sanka Coffie: Yeah! Sled god does it again! Irv: Just shut up, Sanka.”Tagged: sled god, mentally disturbed, criminal charges, shut up
“Josef Grul: Hey, Jamaica! Watch out for Number Twelve turn. Scary, ja? Derice Bannock: What's his problem? Irv: He's Josef Grul. He's one of the best drivers in the world. Yul Brenner: Yeah, he's one of the biggest ASSHOLES in the world, too.”Tagged: drivers, Assholes, Problem
“Oh, yeah, just one little drawback to this delightful winter sport. The high-speed crash. Ooh! That hurt. Always remember, your bones will not break in a bobsled. No, no, no. They shatter.”Tagged: winter sports, bobsledding, bones shattering, Pain
“Come on, Kurt, what you're doing here is wrong, and you know it! Now if this is about you and me, let's lay it all down now. All right, sixteen years ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life: I cheated. I was stupid. I embarrassed myself, I embarrassed my country, my friends, my family, my…”Tagged: Embarrassment, Honor, olympics, Revenge
“Our Father, who art in Calgary, Bobsled be thy name. Thy kingdom come, gold medals won, on Earth as it is in Turn Seven. With Liberty and Justice for Jamaica and Haile Selassie. Amen.”Tagged: Our Father, Calgary, jamaica, Haile selassie
“British Official: We must also be concerned about the potential for embarrassment. Irv: Oh, pardon me. I didn't realize that four black guys in a bobsled could make you blush.”Tagged: Embarrassment, black guys, blushing
“Derice Bannock: Hey, Coach. Irv: Yeah? Derice Bannock: I have to ask you a question. Irv: Sure. Derice Bannock: But you don't have to answer if you don't want to. I mean, I want you to, but if you can't, I understand. Irv: You wanna know why I cheated, right? Derice Bannock: Yes, I do. Irv: That's a…”Tagged: Gold Medal, Cheating
“Yul Brenner: [the guys start climbing into the bobsled] Don't touch me! Sanka Coffie: Hey, Baldie, get off my foot! Yul Brenner: Don't touch me!”Tagged: don't touch me, baldie
“[about to be pushed off start] Sanka Coffie: Oh, wait. Coach, I gotta go. You know? Irv: Hold it. Sanka Coffie: Hold it? Irv: Hold it. Sanka Coffie: Hold it? Irv: Yeah, hold it! Sanka Coffie: But, Coach, I can't hold it. We're not bobsledding yet. Irv: Oh, yes we are. [pushes them off] Sanka Coffie:…”Tagged: Urination
“Derice Bannock: You know, when the Swiss want to ge... Sanka Coffie: Ah, will you shut up about the damn Swiss! I mean, it was all that 'eins zwei drei' nonsense that got us all nervous in the first place. Derice Bannock: Hey, man, look here, I'm just trying to get us off on the right foot. Sanka…”Tagged: Jamaican, Swiss, Nervous
“Sanka Coffie: So, let's talk about this billsled team. Derice Bannock: No, bobsled team. Sanka Coffie: Whoever. Now, about the Wheaties box. I'm gunna be on it myself, right? Derice Bannock: No, mon, you gunna be on it with me.”Tagged: billsled, bobsled, wheaties