- Lucian Tucker: You may be jivin' these chumps, but you ain't jivin' me.
- Moses Guthrie: I ain't jivin' nobody.
- Lucian Tucker: Hey, the name's Tucker, not sucker.
- Coach 'Jock' Delaney: I want you to take a few more shots out there.
- Moses Guthrie: Hey, maybe I ought to sit, coach. I'm cold.
- Coach 'Jock' Delaney: I don't care. Shoot! They're leaving you open.
- Lucian Tucker: So he's open. They don't want to waste a man playing one on none.
- Harvey Tilson: Well, little brother, I tell you something, you're going to have to worry now. Oh, yes, you little trust fund retard.
- Mona Mondieu: Oh, Basketball. Well, I'll have you know I charted an entire year of dog racing, not to mention the Super Bowl. You know, sports are like everything else. They all depend on the stars. You know, given the proper information, I can chart practically anything.
- Tyrone Millman: How would you like to be our team astrologer?
- Mona Mondieu: Oh, I don't know about that. I mean, all those big guys running around in little satin suits and crowds and noise and sweat socks. No. No, I don't think so. I mean I have a such a week ahead of me.
- Tyrone Millman: They're all - Pisces.
- Mona Mondieu: All Pisces?
- Tyrone Millman: All the cats are crying to be traded anyway, right? I mean, they're ready to pay Tilson to cut them loose. So that leaves you. I mean, you're the franchise. Now, say you got a couple of chickens - a rooster and some hens. There's nothing wrong with the rooster. There's nothing wrong with the chickens. They just don't seem to get along. Get rid of the chickens. You get some chickens that aren't on a rooster's trip. Slam dunk! We got eggs.
- Harvey Tilson: Oh, yeah, he's getting his jollies. Look, look, look! And taking a big dump in his diapers.
- H.S.: Okay, I want to get a note off to the L.A. boys 'cause they're gonna win and they're gonna win big. I want to send them some little goodies. Some, uh, something in the order of a basketball, maybe a papier-mâché with their initials on it. It would be kind of cute - and cheap. Um, how about some exotic fruits from the islands? Our islands. And this - this is unique. Get this down. Black things for black players and white things for white players. That way, we have no problems.
- George Brockington: If there's no tonight, there's no tomorrow. If Mona were here, we all know exactly what she'd say. Huh? Huh? I think that says it all.
- Moses Guthrie: You're talking about taking shitty bounce after shitty bounce just to get to the bridge. No man alive should stop you from crossing over.
- Tyrone Millman: Astrology can do for basketball what the light bulb did for night baseball. Can you dig?
- Toby Millman: Yes, I can dig, Ty. I can also dig that I am working my buns off.
- Jackhammer Washington: Ow! This is Jackhammer Washington, Mrs. W's boss baby son. The dapper rapper. The ebony whippersnapper. Ho! The rhyme king, forever on the scene.
- Tyrone Millman: The answer is in the cosmic complexities of the situation, like, um, like say, for example, the '69 Mets.
- Rev. Grady Jackson: O Lord, we welcome You here this morning and ask You to bless this house and all these free throws - I mean, free souls - gathered here in Your presence.
- Harry the Trainer: Between me and you, Tonto, are you planning to do a little ticket scalping on the side?
- Winston Running Hawk: With a face like yours, you, should take a tip from the Lone Ranger - and wear a mask.
- Harry the Trainer: What kind of a name is that? Truth?
- Malik Jamal Truth: That's a free man's name. I left my slave name in the slammer. See, this is a new day and we're a new generation. And that's the Truth.
- Rev. Grady Jackson: Let us lower our eyes and join our hands and take this moment to rebound in - I mean, rejoice in - this moment of communion with our Lord.
- Jackhammer Washington: If you was wise, bubble eyes, you'd cop your jive attitude to the side. Jackhammer Washington will put you to the test and show you which dude can rap the best. Rappin' and slappin' - that's my claim to fame. Plus, I got a mean b-ball game.
- Tyrone Millman: Get down, Pythons! Get down, Pythons! My team. Pythons. Get down, Pythons. Get down.
- Harry the Trainer: No, no, no, no. There's no dames in the locker room.
- Tyrone Millman: Hey, Harry, she's no dame. She's a lady.
- Tyrone Millman: I got to tell you guys something. The reason you were all picked, as you all must've figured out by now, is because you're all born under the same sign of Pisces. The fish.
- Rev. Grady Jackson: A fish?
- Tyrone Millman: Yeah. See, you cats are astrologically compatible. This means that together - together - hey, I mean, you cats can do anything. I mean you can take on a whole army and win - just because the universe, the cosmos, are all on your side. Now, I know that this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to y'all right now, but, each and every one of you, wait and see. Hey, when you get on the court, you'll feel it. I mean, you'll feel like you're a part of something that's bigger than just you. And you'll see that everything will just come down right. And remember, it's the chemistry that you got to believe in. It's the Pisces combination - that'll make it all work.
- Harvey Tilson: Well, listen, how about gettin' right out there and winning one for the fish tonight?
- Moses Guthrie: Let's do that, guys. Let's win.
- Harvey Tilson: Cool. Out of sight. I'm hip. Whatever.
- Mona Mondieu: But remember this, there are positive aspects - and when you are with Mona, the stars are with you. So trust me.
- Murray Sports: If you've been noticing some giddy expressions on the faces of the people next to you on the bus these days lately, you got to understand that it's probably fish fever.
- Toby Millman: Tyrone is not going to be paid a million dollars a year to run around in his underwear.
- Moses Guthrie: I had to learn to squeeze through that hole, as you call it, for my future. It was serious business, not play. I had to learn to walk and lean on air. I had to learn to listen to the rhythm inside my body. I had to learn to push myself to see how far I could go. I had my dreams.
- Moses Guthrie: Hey, now wait a minute, little sister...
- Toby Millman: I am *not* your little sister, okay?
- Murray Sports: Talk about a Cinderella team. At this point you can forgive the Pisces if they think they're wearing glass slippers instead of tennis shoes.
- Murray Sports: L.T., I get a feeling in this locker room tonight of an atmosphere thick with tension and excitement. An atmosphere thick with an apprehension, thick with perhaps, uh...
- Lucian Tucker: Thick like some sport's hustler's fat tongue working overtime.
- Lucian Tucker: I'm going to stay on his ass - like white on rice, like cold on ice, like stink on *shit*.
- Moses Guthrie: Our magic's made of sweat and strain and pride. That's what I'm taking back out on the goddamn court. If you cats are real men, and I know you are, you're gonna come back out there with me - and you're gonna have fire in your hearts and you're gonna have blood in your eyes. And then we're gonna do what we came here to do!