Mike Bassett - Manager Quotes
Kevin Tonkinson: [having been arrested for drink-driving] It wasn't my fault, boss, I had to swerve to avoid the traffic!
Mike: Only because you were on the wrong side of the bloody road! How many milligrams did you have?
Kevin Tonkinson: 88.
Mike: 88 bloody milligrams! You go on the piss all day, you've ballooned out like the Pillsbury Doughboy! You've really let me down this time, Tonka, I'm telling you.
Kevin Tonkinson: I wrote an apology, boss!
Mike: Oh, **** the apology! You could go to jail for this! What sort of system am I going to play then? Three across the middle and one in bloody Pentonville?
Mike: Only because you were on the wrong side of the bloody road! How many milligrams did you have?
Kevin Tonkinson: 88.
Mike: 88 bloody milligrams! You go on the piss all day, you've ballooned out like the Pillsbury Doughboy! You've really let me down this time, Tonka, I'm telling you.
Kevin Tonkinson: I wrote an apology, boss!
Mike: Oh, **** the apology! You could go to jail for this! What sort of system am I going to play then? Three across the middle and one in bloody Pentonville?
Movie: Mike Bassett - Manager
[last lines]
Interviewer: [after Mike and the team leave the plane] Are you going to stay on?
Mike: Four more years! [cheers from crowd]
Mike: I'm staying on!
Interviewer: [some time into the credits] Anyone else?
Pelé: Maybe Korea, Japan...
Interviewer: Japan? What about England?
Pelé: Not England though.
Interviewer: But they've qualified, Pelé!
Pelé: England? [laughs]
Interviewer: [after Mike and the team leave the plane] Are you going to stay on?
Mike: Four more years! [cheers from crowd]
Mike: I'm staying on!
Interviewer: [some time into the credits] Anyone else?
Pelé: Maybe Korea, Japan...
Interviewer: Japan? What about England?
Pelé: Not England though.
Interviewer: But they've qualified, Pelé!
Pelé: England? [laughs]
Movie: Mike Bassett - Manager