Jerry Maguire Quotes

Dorothy: [referring to Jerry] He's coming over.
Laurel: Tonight?
Dorothy: He just lost his best client. I invited the guy over.
Laurel: Dorothy, this is not a guy. It's a syndrome. Early mid-life. Hanging on to the bottom rung. "Dear God, don't let me be alone or I call my

newly-long-suffering-assistant-without-medical for company settlement." If now all you still want is him to come over, I'm not saying anything.
Dorothy: Honey, he's engaged.

Jerry Maguire: I have a question for you, Rod: are we really friends?
Rod Tidwell: Why not?
Jerry Maguire: I mean, because, friends can tell each other anything if we have our friends hats on, right?
Rod Tidwell: I think so.
Jerry Maguire: All right. I'll tell you why you don't have

your ten million dollars yet. Right now, you are a paycheck player. You play with your head, not your heart. In your personal life, heart. But when you get on the field, it's all about what you didn't get, who's to blame, who under threw the pass, who's got the contract you don't, who's not giving you your love. You know what? That is not what inspires people. That is *not* what inspires people.

Just shut up and play the game. Play it from your heart, and you know what? I will show you the quan. And that's the truth, man! That's the truth. Can you handle it? It's just a question between friends, you know? Oh, and when they call you "shrimp", *I'm* the one who defends you!
Rod Tidwell: I don't want to be friends no more.
Jerry Maguire: Fine.

Rod Tidwell: And quit using that word, "quan", that's my word!
Jerry Maguire: I'll see you in L.A.
Rod Tidwell: No heart... no heart?
[shouts]
Rod Tidwell: I'm all heart, motherfucker!

Jerry Maguire: What'd you know about dating a single mother?
Rod Tidwell: [after filming a commercial] Plenty, I was raised by a single mother.
Jerry Maguire: Tell me everything because after this I think she's going to have to take that job in San Diego.
Rod Tidwell: Single mothers don't date they've been to

the circus they've been to the puppet shows and they've seen the strings do you love her?
Jerry Maguire: How do I know?
Rod Tidwell: What'd you mean? How do you know? You know when you know.
Jerry Maguire: I don't want her to go, we hang out at her place a lot
Rod Tidwell: Wait a minute that's bullshit

you have to be fair to her a single mother is a scared thing you've got to have the talk, she loves you, if you don't love her you've got to tell her.

Jerry Maguire: [Over the phone] Tell me you got lost on your way to the restaurant because I know you wouldn't stand up a friend.
Dennis Wilburn: Something came up.
Jerry Maguire: [Referring to Rod's contract] Ten million dollars for four years.
Dennis Wilburn: It's early, you're still dreaming

Jerry Maguire: Ten for four and it's a deal.
Dennis Wilburn: The guy's got an attitude problem.
Jerry Maguire: I can help you with that. He listens to me.
Dennis Wilburn: He's a shrimp.
Jerry Maguire: He broke every receiving record you had last year.
Dennis

Wilburn: I want a prototypical wide receiver. I want someone who is six foot three inches tall, two thundered twenty pounds, not someone who's five ten and bitches in the locker room.
Jerry Maguire: I'm asking you for a favor. I introduced you to your wife, we've spent Christmases together.
Dennis Wilburn: You're reaching.

Jerry Maguire: Don't do this, we have history.
Dennis Wilburn: Yeah, we have history. You've drove up the prices on me for years and now it's time for you to spend some time at the back of the line.

Marcee Tidwell: [while waiting impatiently for him in his office] I'm glad to see you finally made it. Rod is very upset.
Jerry Maguire: How can I make your life better?
Marcee Tidwell: This is humiliating and I'm pregnant and incapable of bullshit. Where is our offer from Arizona? I don't know what you do for your four percent but

my husband has a whole plan, an image and when you put him in a waterbed warehouse commercial you're making him common, when you know he deserves the big four: shoes, cars, clothing line, soft drink. I know about the four jewels of the celebrity endorsement dollar. I majored in marketing and so did my husband. We came to play.

Jerry Maguire: [Narrating] I'm the guy you don't usually see. I'm the one behind the scenes. I'm the sports agent, you those photos where the new player holds the team jersey and poses with the owner? Inside that building, that's where I work: S.M.I.,Sports Management International, thirty three out of shape agents, guiding the careers of one thousand five hundred eighty five of

the most finely tuned athletes alive. I handle the lives and dreams of seventy two clients and I get an average of two hundred sixty four phone calls a day, that's what I do, this is what I do best, but I'll be honest with you. I started noticing a few years ago and I didn't say a word but the quest for the big dollars and a lot of the little things were going wrong, but lately, it's gotten worse

who did I become? Just another shark in a suit?