Jerry Maguire Quotes

Jerry Maguire: [Narrating] Two days later at our corporate conference in Miami: a breakthrough, a breakdown? No, a breakthrough. I had so much to say and no one to listen and then it happened, an unexpected thing: I began writing what they call a "mission statement." Not a memo, a "mission statement", a suggestion for the future of our company. A night like this doesn't come

around very often. I seized it. What started out as one page slowly became twenty-five. Suddenly, I was my father's son again. I was remembering the simple pleasures of this job: how I ended up here out of law school, the way a stadium sounds when one of my players performs well on the field, the way we are meant to protect them in health and in injury. With so many clients we've forgotten what's

important. I wrote and wrote and wrote and I'm not even a writer. I was even remembering the original words of my mentor, the late, great Dicky Fox. Suddenly it was all clear: the answer was fewer clients and less money, giving more attention to them, caring for them, caring for ourselves. I'll be the first to admit it, what I was writing was somewhat "touchy feely". I didn't care, I had lost the

ability to bullshit. It was the me I always wanted to be. I put the mission statement into a bag and took it to a Copy Mat in the middle of the night, printed a hundred and ten copies. Even the cover looked like The Catcher in the Rye. I entitled it, "The Things We Think And Do Not Say: The Future of our Business."

Jerry Maguire: [after having sex, while lying on their bed by himself] I don't think we need to do the thing where we tell each other everything
Avery Bishop: This is what intimacy is, don't forget tomorrow we have the dinner with Wade Cooksey
Jerry Maguire: I know about the bachelor party
Avery Bishop: Your

buddy Dooler worked his ass off to make the tribute film all those guys from your office are coming, everybody loves you just calm down relax and act surprised and have an amazing time

Jerry Maguire: [Narrating] America still sets the tone for the world of sports. In Indiana I signed Clark Hodd. He's only thirteen years old and is considered the best point guard in the country and last week he scored a hundred points in a single game. I also signed Erica Sorgi, you'll see her in the next Olympics. In Seattle I signed Dallas Malloy, she's sixteen years old and

her lawsuit helped paved the way for women boxers everywhere. Whenever she fights she thinks about her ex-boyfriend. In Indio, California I signed Art Stallings, he plays the sport with what pure joy. In Odessa, Texas I signed the great Frank Cushman. This April, twenty-six teams will be falling all over themselves in order to sign him in the next NFL draft. He's my client, my most important

client. Believe me, there's genius everywhere, but until they turn pro it's like popcorn in the pan: some pop, some don't.

Roy Firestone: [On his talk show] Your father leaves on Christmas Eve and leaves your family all alone. Your mother had to sweep out the steps of the prison just to earn enough money for tuition for you. Your brother loses his leg in a tragic bass fishing accident. There's been a list of horrific things that have happened to you.
Rod Tidwell: You're not

going to make me cry.
Roy Firestone: We have some very good news. This has just been handed to me, it's a memo that's signed. It's a contract: guaranteed to the Arizona Cardinals for four years, $11.2 million.

Bob Sugar: [Over the phone with different clients] I'm calling you first because you're most important person in sports and I just want to know one thing: how does that make you feel? I will kill for you, I will maim for you, I will rape and pillage for you. I just want to be the first to tell you that I was talking to Doritos about you and they're interested. I just need to know,

are you in or are you out? You'll be so happy you stayed with me because I am the fucking terminator. I don't want to say if it was drug-induced or whatever, but the fact is, he completely fucking freaked out. I don't know if you want a guy like that representing you going to the draft. There, I said my piece. How's your mom?

Jerry Maguire: [Over the phone] I hear what you're saying and that's why I'm calling.
Rod Tidwell: I hear that you hear what I'm saying, but do you truly "hear" what I'm saying? Didn't you tell my wife more "personal attention"? Did you not tell my wife more "personal attention"?
Jerry Maguire: I said more "personal attention".

Rod Tidwell: We need to get started on my list of things you need to know. You can take notes if you want to. I'm sitting here with an ant problem. I got ants going up and down my hallway, my brother's room has a flood. My house is falling apart, nobody's looking out for me, we don't know where we'll be living in a year and I'm supposed to be a superstar. I am a role model. I

have a family to support. I like you, my wife likes you, you're good to my wife. I will stay with you.

Jerry Maguire: [During lunch] what's up?
Bob Sugar: I came here to let you go
Jerry Maguire: Pardon?
Bob Sugar: I came here to fire you it's real, you should say something
Jerry Maguire: In a crowded restaurant so I won't make a scene you ungrateful...
Bob Sugar:

[interrupts him] You should see yourself you said "fewer clients" and put it all down on paper what about me? What I had to go through, knowing I had to fire my mentor? Carrying that all in my head for a week, can you get past yourself for a minute?
Jerry Maguire: You'll lose
Bob Sugar: You wanted it smaller
Jerry Maguire: I'm

over it and I want all my clients and yours too

Jerry Maguire: [to his friends and colleagues after having been fired eventually leaving with Dorothy] let me just say as I ease out of the office I helped build. I'm sorry but that's a fact that there's such a thing as "manners," the way of treating people: these fish have manners, in fact I'm taking them with me, call me "sentimental" but I'm taking because they have manners,

we'll see you all again, sleep tight.