Tin Cup (1996)

Cheech Marin: Romeo Posar

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Quotes 

• Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Well, I tend to think of the golf swing as a poem.

  Clint : Ooh, he's doing that poetry thing again.

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip. Which the hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger. Lowly and slowly the clubhead is led back. Pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body which turns away from the target shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Tempo is everything; perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. Theres a slight hesitation. A little nod to the gods.

  Dr. Molly Griswold : A, a nod to the gods?

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Yeah, to the gods. That he is fallible. That perfection is unobtainable. And now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth. It's alive, this swing! A living sculpture and down through contact, always down, striking the ball crisply, with character. A tuning fork goes off in your heart and your balls. Such a pure feeling is the well-struck golf shot. Now the follow through to finish. Always on line. The reverse C of the Golden Bear! The steel workers' power and brawn of Carl Sandburg's. Arnold Palmer!

  Romeo Posar : Unnhh, he's doing the Arnold Palmer thing.

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : End the unfinished symphony of Roy McAvoy.

• Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : If I had it to do all over again, I'd still hit that shot.

  Romeo : Man, you'd bury yourself alive just to prove you could handle the shovel.

• Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : You know why I still hit that shot?

  Romeo Posar : Yeah, because it's the only way you could beat Dave Simms.

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : No.

  Romeo Posar : 'Cause it was that look in your face...

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : I hit it again because that shot was a defining moment, and when a defining moment comes along, you define the moment... or the moment defines you.

• [Asking Romeo to be his caddy again instead of Earl] 

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Look, I love Earl, okay, but... I need you.

  Romeo Posar : You don't love me?

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Yeah, yeah, I-I love you too, goddammit.

  Romeo Posar : Well, as much as Earl?

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : I don't know! I mean, when I was with Earl, I was thinking of you... Yes, uh, as much as Earl. More than Earl. More than Earl.

  Romeo Posar : Am I special?

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Well, if you can remove the sexual overtones and add a golf theme, then Romeo, I am your Juliet.

• Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : [At the first tee in the first round of the U.S. Open]  I got time for a quick bucket?

  US Open Starter : Tee it up.

  Romeo : Man, it took awhile to get you off the floor this morning, hoss. And may I say you don't handle the hooch like you used to.

  [looking down the fairway] 

  Romeo : Oh yeah, I saw this hole on TV. Just hit the big dog the hell up the chute.

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : No, I've learned my lesson. Just going to play it safe, smart, conservative, fairways and greens.Give me the 2-Iron.

  Romeo : Are you sure?

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Yeah.

  [takes the 2-Iron and hits his drive] 

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Be humble, be humble.

  Romeo : [after the round is over]  83. Well, you're humble now, holmes.

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : I was hungover.

  Romeo : Well... that may have been a coaching error on my part.

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Yeah, I think maybe it was. Thanks, amigo.

• [In preparation to shoot over the water hazard at hole 18 at the US Open] 

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : This is for Venturi who thinks I should lay up.

  Romeo : What does he know? He only won this tournament before you were born.

• Romeo Posar : Well, David Simms may be a "soulless robot", but he's a rich, happy, soulless robot... with a beautiful doctor lady girlfried. Besides, how's getting in the Open going to change what she thinks about you?

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Well, it'll show her that I'm not who she thinks I am.

  Romeo Posar : But you are who she thinks you are!

• Dr. Molly Griswold : I find him... mildly attractive when he's obnoxious and arrogant like this.

  Romeo Posar : Oh, good. That's his best side.

• Romeo Posar : Look, boss, I only got one rule. And that's never bet money that you don't have on a dog race with an ex-girlfriend who happens to be a stripper.

• Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : This is everything, ain't it? This is the choice it comes down to - this is our immortality.

  Romeo Posar : You don't need to be thinking immortality - you need to be thinking hit the 7 iron!

• Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Well, I'm stuck, and I'm buried. I need help, and I need advice. I need counseling, I need a... I need a shrink.

  Romeo Posar : You don't know no shrinks.

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : I know one!

  Romeo Posar : No-ooo, no no no. Not the doctor lady.

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Why not?

  Romeo Posar : You can't ask for advice about the woman you're trying to hose FROM the woman you're trying to hose!

  Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy : Why not?

• Romeo Posar : Now THAT was a defining moment. And the definition was "shit."

• Romeo Posar : You'd bury yourself in lye just to prove you could handle the shovel.