A League of their Own Quotes
– A League of their Own Quotes –
The story of a league Of their own quotes is based on the all American girls professional baseball league in real life. It is a fictionalized account of the league. Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel wrote the screenplay for the movie.
A League of their Own Quotes
Given below are some famous and popular quotes from the movie ‘A League Of Their Own.
1. “Yeah, what do you think we are? Baseball players or ballerinas?” – Doris Murphy.
2. “They always made me feel wrong, like I was some sort of a weird girl or a strange girl or not even a girl, just because I could play. I believed them, too, you know? But not anymore. I mean, look, there’s a lot of us. I think we’re all all right.” – Doris Murphy.
3. “Mae! Mae! Don’t use my bat! Use Marla’s. It’s heavier.” – Doris Murphy. A League of their Own Quotes
4. “What? Took me about a year. Not counting them two months I was in the hospital, though. Bat hit me right in the head. Bam!” – Doris Murphy.
5. “Ohh! I don’t know why you get dressed at all.” – Doris Murphy
6. “Evelyn. Evelyn. I’m sorry but I have to kill your son.” – Mae Mordabito.
7. “You know, they got over 100 girls, so, um, some of you are gonna have to go home.” – Mae Mordabito.
8. “Oh, what the difference does it make? She’s reading, okay? That’s the important thing. Now go away, go, shoo, shoo. Go ahead, Shirley, you’re doing good.” – Mae Mordabito.
9. “And what am I supposed to do, huh? Go back to taxi dancin’? Ten cents so some slob can sweat gin all over me? I’m never doin’ that again!” – Mae Morbadito.
10. “I don’t plan on wearing it that long.” – Mae Morbadito. A League of their Own Quotes
11. “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard—is what makes it great.” – Jimmy Dugan
12. “Are you crying? Are you crying? There’s no crying. There’s no crying in baseball!” – Jimmy Dugan
13. “Perhaps you chastised her too vehemently. A good rule of thumb: treat each of these girls as you would treat your mother.” – Umpire
14. “Baseball is what gets inside you. It’s what lights you up, you can’t deny that.” – Jimmy Dugan
15. “You got yourself in the league. I got you on the train.” – Dottie Hinson
16. “I gave away five years at the end of my career to drink. Five years. And now there isn’t anything I wouldn’t give to get back any one day of it.” – Jimmy Dugan
17. “Ira Lowenstein: “Great game, Jimmy. I especially liked that move in the seventh inning when you scratched your balls for an hour.” Jimmy Dugan: “Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right.”
18. “Look, that’s how the game is played. You won the game. You wanted it more than me.” – Dottie Hinson
19. “Why? What do you think? Because none of the other boys—they always made me feel wrong, like I was some sort of a weird girl or a strange girl or not even a girl, just because I could play. I believed them, too, you know? But not anymore. I mean, look, there’s a lot of us. I think we’re all right.” – Doris Murphy
20. “Careers and higher education are leading to the masculinization of women, with enormously dangerous consequences to the home, the children, and our country. When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to?” – Maida Gillespie. A League of their Own Quotes
21. “Well I was just wonderin’ why you would throw home when we got a two-run lead. You let the tying run get on second base and we lost the lead because of you. Start using your head.” – Jimmy Dugan
22. “Something important has just happened. I was in the toilet reading my contract, and it turns out I get a bonus when we get to the World Series. So, let’s play hard, let’s play smart. Use your heads!” – Jimmy Dugan
23. “Dottie, if you want to go back to Oregon and make a hundred babies, great, I’m in no position to tell anyone how to live. But sneaking out like this, quitting, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.” – Jimmy Dugan
24. “Why would I wanna drink? I’m a goddamn Peach! Ah, double play! Now I’m hitting like a girl.” – Jimmy Dugan
25. “You stink, you’re lousy, you’re only the best player in the league.” – Jimmy Dugan
26. “Well, now, I was going to send you a thank-you card, Mr. Harvey, but I wasn’t allowed anything sharp to write with.” – Jimmy Dugan
27. “It was made very clear to me what I’m supposed to do here. I smile, wave my little hat—I did that, so when do I get paid?” – Jimmy Dugan
28. “Ballplayers. I don’t have ballplayers, I’ve got girls. Girls are what you sleep with after the game, not, not what you coach during the game.” – Jimmy Dugan
29. “Something important has just happened. I was in the toilet reading my contract, and it turns out I get a bonus when we get to the World Series. So, let’s play hard, let’s play smart. Use your heads!” – Jimmy Dugan.
30. “Dottie, if you want to go back to Oregon and make a hundred babies, great, I’m in no position to tell anyone how to live. But sneaking out like this, quitting, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.” – Jimmy Dugan.
31. “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard… is what makes it great.” – Jimmy Dugan.
32. “Well I was just wonderin’ why you would throw home when we got a two-run lead. You let the tying run get on second base and we lost the lead because of you. Start using your head. ” – Jimmy Dugan.
33. “You stink, you’re lousy, you’re only the best player in the league.” – Jimmy Dugan.
34. “Why would I wanna drink? I’m a goddamn Peach! [Hits a ground ball] Ah, double play! Now I’m hitting like a girl.” – Jimmy Dugan.
35. “It was made very clear to me what I’m supposed to do here. I smile, wave my little hat… I did that, so when do I get paid?” – Jimmy Dugan.
36. “I, I gave away five years at the end my career to drink. Five years. And now there isn’t anything I wouldn’t give to get back any one day of it.” – Jimmy Dugan.
37. “Baseball is what gets inside you. It’s what lights you up, you can’t deny that.” – Jimmy Dugan.
38. “I’m so sick of being blamed for everything that’s bothering you. I got you into this league—I didn’t even want to be here.” – Dottie Hinson
39. “Look, I’m married, I’m happy. That’s what I want, so let’s not confuse things.” – Dottie Hinson
40. “Well, if you have any trouble, you know who to blame.” – Dottie Hinson
41. “Yeah. It is only a game, Jimmy. It’s only a game, and I don’t need this. I have Bob; I don’t need this. At all.” – Dottie Hinson
42. “You know, I seem to remember last week somebody throwing a rosin bag in my face, telling me to get my fat ass back behind the plate. Was that you or the umpire?” – Dottie Hinson
43. “Can we just hold each other for the rest of our lives?” – Dottie Hinson
44. “I’ll tell you what I’ll miss. Well, I’ll miss the girls. I’ll miss you, Kit.” – Dottie Hinson
45. “In the 43 years I’ve been practicing medicine, I never saw a woman throw up that much.” – Dottie Hinson
46. “I know my girl ain’t so pretty as these girls, but that’s my fault. I raised her like I would a boy. I didn’t know any better. She loves to play. Don’t make my little girl suffer because I messed up raising her.” – Dave Hooch.
47. “Are you crying? There’s no crying! There’s no crying in baseball!” – Jimmy Dugan.
48. “Come on, Dottie. You’ve got the whole rest of your life to hang around here. Never go anywhere, never do anything…” – Kit Keller.
49. “You ever hear Dad introduce us to people? ‘This is our daughter Dottie, and this is our other daughter, Dottie’s sister.’ Should’ve just had you and bought a dog!” – Kit Keller.
50. “I’m Ernie Capadino. I’m a baseball scout. I saw you playing today. Not bad, not bad. You ever heard of Walter Harvey, makes Harvey bars – you know, the candy?” – Ernie Capadino.
51. “That’s the guy. He’s starting a girls’ baseball league, so he can make a buck while the boys are overseas. Wanna play?” – Ernie Capadino.
52. “If we paid you just a little bit more, Jimmy, could you be just a little more disgusting?” – Ira Lowenstein
53. “Jimmy, you have a bunch of great players here. If you just give them a chance.” – Ira Lowenstein
54. “This is what it’s going to be like in the factories, too, I suppose, isn’t it? ‘The men are back, Rosie, turn in your rivets.’ We told them it was their patriotic duty to get out of the kitchen and go to work; and now, when the men come back, we’ll send them back to the kitchen.” – Ira Lowenstein
55. “Every girl in this league is going to be a lady.” – Ira Lowenstein. A League of their Own Quotes
56. “Do you realize how dedicated these players are? They play with sprained ankles, broken fingers. Sometimes they ride a bus all night to play a double-header the next morning.” – Ira Lowenstein
57. “If you can’t play ball in this, you can’t play ball with us. Now, there are 38 girls on a train ride home, who’ll play in a bathing suit, if I ask them.” – Ira Lowenstein
58. “Mr. Harvey, I would like your executive approval for me to take over the league.” – Ira Lowenstein
59. “Ah, there is no smoking. There is also no drinking and no men.” – Ira Lowenstein
60. “Until you did that, I couldn’t tell if you were—drunk or dead.” – Ira Lowenstein
61. “I sold you a product when there was no product. This is a product.” – Ira Lowenstein
62. “What? Took me about a year. Not counting the two months I was in the hospital, though. Bat hit me right in the head. Bam!” – Doris Murphy. A League of their Own Quotes
63. “Hey, Jimmy, you look like shit. Don’t you ever shave?” – Dottie Hinson
64. “Did anyone ever tell you you look like a penis with a little hat on?” – Jimmy Dugan
65. “Mae! Mae! Don’t use my bat! Use Marla’s. It’s heavier.” – Doris Murphy
66. “Yeah. We feed them to the cows when they’re constipated.” – Dottie Hinson
67. “Oh, what’s the difference? She’s reading, okay? That’s the important thing. Now go away, go, shoo, shoo. Go ahead, Shirley, you’re doing good.” – Mae Mordabito
68. “I’m singing to Nelson, ain’t I baby?” – Marla Hooch
69. Mae Mordabito: “It’s half a dress! Excuse me, but that’s not a baseball uniform!” Doris Murphy: “Yeah, what do you think we are? Baseball players or ballerinas?”
70. “I know my girl ain’t so pretty as these girls, but that’s my fault. I raised her like I would a boy. I didn’t know any better. She loves to play. Don’t make my little girl suffer because I messed up raising her. Please.” – Dave Hooch
71. “Okay, let’s make like a bread truck and haul buns ladies!” – Doris Murphy
72. “Listen, that might have been a ball yesterday, it might have been a ball last week, but this is today and I’m calling it a strike.” – Umpire
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