Ted Lasso (TV Series)

Inverting the Pyramid of Success (2021)

Nick Mohammed: Nathan Shelley

Quotes 

• Ted Lasso : What is it? Hmm? What'd I do?

  Nathan Shelley : What are you talking about?

  Ted Lasso : Oh, come on, man. You're mad as hell at me. I just wanna know why. Huh? What have I got to learn here?

  Nathan Shelley : You wanna know what you did?

  Ted Lasso : Yeah. Please.

  Nathan Shelley : [turns around]  Okay, I'll tell you what you did. You made me feel like I was the most important person in the whole world, and then you abandoned me. Like you switched out a light, just like that. And I worked my ass off trying to get your attention back, to prove myself to you. To make you like me again. But the more I did, the less you cared. It was like I was fucking invisible. You haven't even got the photo I gave you for Christmas up in your office. Just a picture of dumb Americans. Now you're gonna play Nate's "false nine", so when the team fuck up, which they will, you can blame it on me. Well, no. Fuck that!

  [wipes back his tears] 

  Nathan Shelley : Everybody loves you. The great Ted Lasso. Well, I think you're a fucking joke. Without me, you wouldn't have won a single match, and they would have shipped your ass back to Kansas where you fucking belong, with your son. 'Cause you sure as hell don't belong here. But I do. I belong here. This didn't just fall into my lap, all right? I earned this.

  Ted Lasso : I know you did, Nate. And if I didn't tell you how important you were to me enough, I'm sorry about that...

  Nathan Shelley : No, no, you know what? You're full of shit. Just fuck you, Ted!

  [walks off]