The Junction Boys (2002 TV Movie)
Ryan Kwanten: Claude Gearheart
Quotes
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Claude Gearheart : [Johnny has suffered from heat stroke] Smokey! Get some help for Johnny here!
Smokey Harper : Tell him to suck it up.
Claude Gearheart : Well, give him somethin'.
[Smokey pulls an aspirin tablet out of his pocket]
Claude Gearheart : Aspirin?
Smokey Harper : What else you want me to do?
Claude Gearheart : You damn witch doctor! We ain't cattle! Now, you help my buddy!
Smokey Harper : All right, I'll have Luke Mason grab him a bag of ice.
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Claude Gearheart : Skeet, it ain't worth it. How can you play football? You can't even stand up straight.
Skeet Keeler : Coach will cut me for sure if I'm not out there tomorrow.
Claude Gearheart : Aw, hell! This ain't the Korean front!
[Skeet hands Johnny and Gearhart his clippings]
Skeet Keeler : "Carries the flag of Lufkin." That's what my high school coach said. Mom said I'm the lucky star in the paper; they all warned me so I wouldn't be embarrassed. Without football, I'm nothin' but a shiftless wildcatter's kid. Nobody from nowhere.
Claude Gearheart : Ain't nobody counted on a crazy coach.
Skeet Keeler : He ain't all wrong. I ain't had to work for nothin' my whole life. If I bomb out here, I hate to think how the folks in Lufkin will treat me... or my mama. I might as well die in Junction.
Johnny Haynes : Nobody's gonna die. We're gonna win. Coach is the real thing.
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Bear Bryant : Gearhart, who taught you to whip a double-team like that? Your mama?
Claude Gearheart : My mama's dead, Coach.
Bear Bryant : So's your football career, pissant! Show me some hittin'!
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Gearhart's Father : [In reference to Gearhart's father beating up Gearhart's younger brother] Little prick! I could whup your ass six weeks from Christmas!
Claude Gearheart : You had enough practice.
[He drives away]
Gearhart's Father : Good luck in Aggieville! God knows you ain't good enough to play for Texas!
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Claude Gearheart : I was workin' at the bank back up north in Illinois. I needed one more big name to get started. I called up Coach Bryant, asked him if he wanted to buy two hundred shares. I hear, "Two hundred shares?" I'm convinced I'm done for. Then he says, "Claude, I got a lot more faith in you than that. You put me down for a thousand."
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Claude Gearheart : [Furiously drinking the shower water after being run by Bryant in practice] Screw him! I'd rather be cuttin' lumber in Oregon with my brother!
Johnny Haynes : You can't quit, man. We need ya.
Claude Gearheart : For what? Fertilizer?
Johnny Haynes : We're gonna win the Southwest, Gear.
Claude Gearheart : With Bryant? Not a chance. The bastard's just like my old man.
Johnny Haynes : Well, your old man ain't won sixty-six football games.
Claude Gearheart : [Grabs Haynes angrily] He knocked you to Tucson! You like that?
Johnny Haynes : Hurt like hell.
Claude Gearheart : I bet it did.
Johnny Haynes : But you know what? He was right. I stood Morris up. Moved him around like Grandma's china all afternoon. You can't quit, Gear. What's Oregon got that we don't... besides water, trees, and women?