Top 50 Quotes From Friday Night Lights

Reporter: Should we believe the hype?
Boobie: What hype?
Reporter: The hype about Boobie Miles.
Boobie: Now hype is something that's not for real. I'm all real.

Coach: [to quarterback Mike Winchell] You're playing like the village idiot! You want people to think of you as the village idiot?

Ivory: Ya'll playing like a bunch of little girls!

Boobie: Boobie's gonna knock 'em out with black Nikes on his feet!

Coach: I've seen you fight. I've seen you not quit. Can you give me a great effort and just a little bit more. Can you be perfect?

Radio: There's too much learning going on at that school.

Boobie: Y'all wanna win? Put Boobie in.

Don: We're gonna get drunk, we're gonna get laid, and we're gonna win state but not tonight.

Mike: This is for the state championship. I love all of ya'll, baby. I love all of ya'll.

Sharon: How about Alaska? We could move to Alaska. I bet they're not as serious about their football in Alaska.

Melissa: Are you gay?
Melissa: [to Ivory Christian] Is he gay?
Mike: I'm not gay.
Melissa: Can you prove it?

Jennifer: Are we going to move again?
Sharon: No, honey.
Coach: Possibly.

Comer's: [to Comer] I wanna be with a ball carrier. Give me one touchdown. Just one.

Ivory: What's wrong with y'all? Y'all are playin' like some little girls! Y'all act like you never played football before! These guys are nothin'! They bleed just like we do, and sweat just like we do. They went through two-a-days. We went through two-a-days in 110 degree heat. I want you to hit everything that move! If the ref gets in your way, you hit him! They're cheatin' us too! They're against us too. This is our team. This is us! Let's go right now! Let's get it off now and let's go!

Brian: [after taking a picture of his infant daughter being held by Mike Winchell] I tell you what - Why don't you hold onto her for a while? Babysit her for us for a couple of hours? We're gonna go get ourselves drink, ya know, back in a while. All right, see ya later.
[They start to walk off, Mike looks shocked. Brian laughs]
Brian: I'm just kidding!
[to his daughter]
Brian: Come here, sweetie.

Brian: After this it's just babies and memories.

Don: Hey Chavo, be perfect.
Brian: You be perfect.

Coach: You quit reading your press clippings, all right? Because you're smaller, and you're gonna be smaller every week. Ain't gonna be no growth spurt between now and the first game. They're gonna underestimate you every single week. We teach you this technique for a reason. We do not do this to make our heads rattle. You're gonna use your mind. You're gonna play with your heart. That's what you're gonna use to win the State Championship.

Mike: Hey Boobie, you didn't lift.
Boobie: C'mon man. This is god given. The only thing I gotta do is show up.

Boobie: God made black beautiful. God made Boobie beautiful. And when I knock someone out, I'm gonna knock 'em out in nikes and I'm gonna smile while I do it.

Coach: Being perfect is when you can look someone in the eye and know you did not let them down.

Ivory: This is our team!

Charles: Can't hold on to the lamp, can't hold on to the football.
Don: I can hold on to the football, Dad. Now get the hell out of here!

Boobie: Yo, Mike. You gonna come visit my distinguished ass out in California?

Don: What's wrong with you?
[yelling at his father after he throws his State Championship ring out the car window]
Don: What the hell is WRONG with you?

Brian: We will win State.
Don: Chavez, you're like a human pi"ata. You get your ass all beat more than anybody I know, and you just sit there and spit out candy.
Mike: That's because he's out of here. He's got the grades. And no matter what we win or loose he knows he's getting out. He's got one foot out the door, man.
Brian: Give me the gun.
Don: [making fun of Chavez] You're going to be drinking martinis, eating lamb chops, getting manicures...
Brian: You're just jealous.
Don: ...removing your freakin' shoes.

Mike: My mind's not right.

Ivory: I'll knock your ass out in flip flops.

Charles: You just-you ain't gettin' it. You don't understand. This is the only thing you're ever gonna have. Forever, it carries you forever. It's an ugly fact of life. Donnie, hell. It's the only fact of life. You got one year, one stinkin' year to make yourself some memories, son. That's all. It's gone after that. And I'll be damned if you're not gonna miss it.

Mike: You ever feel cursed, Coach? Like, no matter what, inside your heart you feel that you're gonna lose. Like something's hanging over you, following you like a witch or a demon that just... I feel like that all the time. Even when things are going good. When we're winnin', it's there. And when we're losin', it's there.
Coach: It took me a long time to realize that, uh, there ain't much difference between winnin' and losin' except for how the outside world treats you. But inside you, it's about all the same, you know. It really is. Fact of matter is I believe that our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed. You know what I'm sayin'? We, all of us, dig our own holes.

State: You boys gonna go undefeated?
Brian: Yes sir.
State: You boys gonna win state?
Brian: Yes sir.
State: Good.

Boobie: I get straight A's. I'm a athlete.
Reporter: In what subject?
Boobie: Hey, there's only one subject. It's football.

Brian: I'm gonna miss the heat.
Don: I'm gonna miss the lights.
Brian: Yeah, me too. Stay low boys, keep those feet moving.
Don: Hey Chavez! Be perfect.
Brian: You be perfect.
Don: See you Mike.

Reporter: Your dad played at Permian. What's it like to be the son of a local legend?
Don: Next question.

Coach: [half time speech] Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down.

Coach: Gentlemen, the hopes and dreams of an entire town are riding on your shoulders. You may never matter again in your life as much as you do right now.

Brian: We got to lighten up. We're 17.
Don: Do you feel 17?
Mike: I don't feel 17.

Drunk: Billingsley! Party at Taylor's house NOW Billingsley! Gonna get wasted! Yeah! Billingsley! BILLINGSLEY!
Brian: Isn't that guy, like, 35?

Coach: So how is it out there?
Ivory: They're fast, they're big, they're dirty... plus they're fast.
Coach: You said that already.

Coach: Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didnt let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasnt one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!

Don: If I have anything to say about it tonight you're going to get drunk and you're going to get laid.
Mike: I'm not going out drunk and foolin'.

Coach: Everything all right?
John: Everything's going to be just fine. Everything's all right as long as we win state.
Coach: Or what?

Coach: Hey, hey son! Come here. Where are you going?
Chris: You don't want me to go in Coach?
Coach: You're not wearing a helmet?
[Comer realizes he has no helmet on]
Coach: My goodness gracious!

Boobie: Go on, go on and be perfect

Mike: He designed his offense around one player. We're dead.
Brian: We're not dead. You just need to start throwing the ball.
Don: We're dead.

Cheerleader: Hi Don!
Don: Hey Karen.
Cheerleader: I made this is for you
[Hands him a rice krispie treat]
Cheerleader: . Do you like it? Do you like it?
Don: Yeah... I think so. What is it?
Cheerleader: It's you as a rice krispie. Do you like it?
Don: Yeah, I love it. Thanks.

Boobie: What am I gonna do if I can't play football? I'm not good at nothin'!

Coach: [half-time speech] I want you to take a moment, and I want you to look each other in the eyes. I want you to put each other in your hearts forever because forever is about to happen here in just a few minutes. I want you to close your eyes, and I want you to think about Boobie Miles, who is your brother. And he would die to be out there in that field with you tonight. And I want you to put that in your hearts. Boys my heart is full. My heart is full.

Boobie: Yo, Billingsley, you don't have to ever worry about hanging on to the football, you know why?
Don: Why?
Boobie: Because you ain't never gonna get the ball. Your job is to be blocking for Boobie and I don't care if your dad is sitting over there crying.
Don: [Attacks Boobie] You just never shut up, do you?

Coach: We're in the business of winning.