The White Shadow Quotes

Ken Reeves: [Coach Reeves has just pulled all of his starting players from a game except his center] I'd pull you too Coolidge but you're so fat, you need to run.

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Ken Reeves: [Coach Reeves walks in to substitute teach gym class and blows his whistle] Alright, let's line up!
Ken Reeves: [looks over at the bleachers and sees Lucius lounging instead of lining up] You a part of this class?
Lucius Robinson: Sometimes.
Ken Reeves: Then how come you're not on the floor like the rest of us?
Lucius Robinson: I don't feel good.
Ken Reeves: You been to see the nurse?
Lucius Robinson: I got a doctor's note.
Ken Reeves: Let me see it.
Lucius Robinson: I don't have it.
Ken Reeves: What's wrong with you?
Lucius Robinson: I got this rare tropical disease called 'I can't stand gym'!
Ken Reeves: Alright, I'll be with you in a minute. In the meantime, take your feet off the bleachers. Alright, roll call! [calls several names]
Ken Reeves: Robinson!
Lucius Robinson: Present!
Ken Reeves: I thought I told you to take your feet off the bleachers. You don't put your feet on the furniture at home, do you? Don't do it here!
Lucius Robinson: I always put my feet on the furniture at home.
Ken Reeves: What does your mother say about that?
Lucius Robinson: She says, 'where do you think you are, school?'! [class members start laughing]

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Morris Thorpe: [a new kid shows up wearing a basketball letter jacket] Relax, that jacket said Montana. There can't be more than three high schools in the whole territory.

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Jim Willis: You had it easy sonny boy. You'll never know what it's like have to sit in the back of the bus and then give up your seat to a white man or pee in your pants because you can't find a bathroom that'll take you... Now I know a racist when I see one. And I'm looking at one right now.

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Morris Thorpe: [a new kid shows up wearing a basketball letter jacket] Relax, that jacket said Montana. There can't be more than three high schools in the whole territory.

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Ken Reeves: [Coach Reeves has just pulled all of his starting players from a game except his center] I'd pull you too Coolidge but you're so fat, you need to run.

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Harold: [after Ken Reeves has done a student reporter a favor] Did you do that as a reward for me writing a positive article?
Ken Reeves: No, I expect to get raked over the coals the next time we lose.

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