Trouble with the Curve (2012)

Clint Eastwood: Gus

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• Gus : What do you say now, jackass? That's known as, trouble with the curve.

• Gus : Now get out of here before I have a heart attack trying to kill you.

• Pete Klein : Have you thought about what you'll do when your contract is up?

  Gus : Sure, sign another one for more money.

• Gus : You remember years ago, down in Mobile, Alabama, they had the horse running around the field.

  Mickey : Yeah.

  Gus : They used to keep that horse in a trailer down outside the bullpen gate. Anyway, I was talking to this kid I had signed, telling him there's no place for him the big leagues. And all of a sudden, I realized you were gone and I couldn't find you. I was panicking. I saw this shack there. I went... I went over and looked in... and there you were with this guy. He had his hand down the back of your shirt.

  Mickey : I don't remember that.

  Gus : Yeah. How could you? You were only six years old. I sent you out, and then I started beating the shit out of this guy. I smashed his head against the wall and I started hitting him with everything I had. I strangled his ass. Finally, he passed out.

  Mickey : Oh, my gosh, dad.

  Gus : I kept waiting for the police to come and arrest me, but they never did. That's when I sent you off to your aunt and uncle's, 'cause thought they'd take care of you. I thought I'd failed you. Your mother had died a year before and I was a mess. You have to understand that.

  Mickey : Can't you understand that you sending me away wasn't protecting me, it was rejecting me. And I've been working really hard to not let anyone else get close enough to me to do that again, and being alone really sucks.

• Gus : You need some money for some new clothes?

  Mickey : I just came from yoga.

  Gus : You into that voodoo, huh?

  Mickey : Yeah. I'm thinking about getting three sixes tattooed across my forehead.

• [first lines] 

  Gus : [at the toilet]  Okay, come on now. Come on, boy. Let's not take your sweet-ass time about this. Jesus. Okay, that's it... Ah, good. Don't laugh, I outlived you, you little bastard.

• Gus : [Mickey's phone beeps]  What would they want now?

  Mickey : Hmm. Todd's presentation didn't go so well, so they're trying to push my, uh, partnership forward.

  Gus : So, what are you gonna do?

  Mickey : I'll think about it.

  Gus : No, I mean...

  Mickey : I said I'll think about it.

  [she tosses the phone into a nearby dumpster] 

• [last lines] 

  Mickey , Johnny : [kissing] 

  Gus : Well, it looks like I'll be taking the bus...

• Gus : You don't know anything about scouting.

  Johnny : Don't tell them that.

• Gus : You shouldn't be in a place like this.

  Mickey : You used to sneak me into places worse than this.

• Gus : I know I'm as blind as a slab of concrete, but I'm not helpless. I'll put a bullet in my head when that happens.

  Mickey : That's comforting.

• Gus : I think maybe, maybe I could change the way I do things.

  Mickey : You already have.

• Gus : What are you all staring at? I'm not a pole dancer.

• Gus : You trying to starve me to death? Come on, let's go get something to eat. You got a man in there?

  Mickey : [sarcastic, as she lets him in]  Yean, Flanagan's in here. We're getting ready to get in the shower.

  Gus : Not so funny.

• Gus : Anybody who uses computers doesn't know a damn thing about this game.

• Vince : Well, you can take an early retirement, collect disability. With the pension we offer you should be comfortable.

  Gus : Save it. Being comfortable is overrated.

• Gus : You just need to get as far away from me as you can. Can't you understand that?