The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

A Medal for Opie (1962)

Ron Howard: Opie Taylor

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Quotes 

• Opie Taylor : They don't give you no medal for tryin'.

  Andy Taylor : I know that. I know they don't and it's nice to win something. It's real nice to win something, but it's more important to know how *not* to win something.

  Opie Taylor : I know how to do that real good.

  Andy Taylor : No, you don't.

  Opie Taylor : You mean there's more things I coulda not won?

  Andy Taylor : I mean, you coulda been a nice loser. They call it sportsmanship.

• [Barney talks about training Opie] 

  Opie Taylor : You mean you're gonna make *me* one big muscle, too?

  Barney Fife : Yeah!

  Andy Taylor : Uh, 'cept in your case, we'll try to stop at the neck.

  Barney Fife : [irritated]  That's very comical, Andy! Only comicalness don't win no medals!

• Barney Fife : Where you goin'?

  Opie Taylor : I'm leavin'! You're a sight!

• Andy Taylor : You got to learn how to take disappointment. There could be more of 'em comin' up, you know. You come up smilin', you're a good loser. The other way's bein' a bad loser. Now, what do you wanna be?

  Opie Taylor : A good winner.

• Andy Taylor : It don't take courage to be a winner. It *does* take courage to be a good loser. Now, you wanna be a good loser, you'll be proud of your friends that *did* win and you'll congratulate 'em for it.

  Opie Taylor : I won't!

  Andy Taylor : You won't?

  Opie Taylor : They ain't my friends! They beat me and they got my medal!