Cool Runnings Quotations

Cool Runnings is a 1993 comedy film about the exploits of the Jamaican Bobsled Team at Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Written by Lynn Siefert, Tommy Swerdlow, and Michael Goldberg.

One Dream. Four Jamaicans. Twenty Below Zero.

Dialogue

Derice: That's a bobsled.

Sanka: Oh, so a bobsled is push-cart with no wheels.

Derice: That's what it looks like here.

Sanka: "Let me see that...Alright, the key elements to a successful sled team are a steady driver, and three strong runners to push off down the ice." ICE? Ice?

Derice: Well, it's kind of a winter sport, you know.

Sanka: You mean winter, as in ice?

Derice: Maybe.

Sanka: You mean winter, as in igloos and eskimos and penguins and ICE?

Derice: Possibly.

Sanka: See ya.

Derice: Where you going?

Sanka: I'm going to take a hot bath, I'm getting cold just thinking about all this ice.

Sanka: So what are we going to name the sled?

Junior: How about, Taloola.

Rest of team: [Laughing] Taloola.

Sanka: Sounds like a two-dollar hooker. How'd you come up with that?

Junior: Hey, that's my mother's name. [Team converses in agreement]

Sanka: [to Derice] What's it gonna be, star? What are the people gonna be screaming when Jamaica takes the hill?

Derice: We say in kind, 'Cool Runnings.'

Junior: Beautiful, I like that.

Yul: Very strong.

Coach Irv: Very nice, but what exactly does it mean?

Derice: Cool runnings means, peace be to journey.

Team: [Toasting] Cool Runnings.

Sanka: [Toasting] To the man in the orange suit.

Messenger: Excuse me...

Sanka: [Toasting] To the messenger.

Coach Irv: [Ashen-faced, after reading the letter] We are officially...disqualified.

[At the IAWS meeting]

British Alliance Member: We must also be concerned about the potential for embarrassment.

Irv Blitzer: Oh, forgive me. I didn't realize that four black guys in a bobsled could make you blush.

Kurt: I think we've heard enough.

Irv: [pleads] Come on, Kurt, what you're doing is wrong, and you know it! Now if this is about you and me, let's get it straight right now. All right, 16 years ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life - I cheated. I was stupid. I embarrassed myself, my family, my teammates, my country... [points to Kurt] and my coach. If it's revenge you want, take it. Go ahead, disqualify me, banish me! Do whatever you want, but do it to me! It was me who let you down, Kurt! It wasn't my guys! They've done everything you've asked of them! And they did it with all of you laughing in their face. Hell, it doesn't matter if they come in first or fiftieth. Those guys have earned the right to represent their country. They've earned the right to march into that stadium and wave their nation's flag. That's the single greatest honor an athlete can ever have. That's what the Olympics are about. Sixteen years ago I forgot that. Don't you go and do the same. Sorry if I interrupted your meeting.

Junior Bevil: [Murmurs] Pride, Power...[Stops elevator] Father, when you look at me, what do you see?

Whitby Bevil Sr: I don't have time for games. Junior.

Junior: Tell me what you see, please!

Whitby: Alright I'll tell you what I see. I see a lost little boy, who's lucky to have a father who knows what's best for him.

Junior: No, no, no, no you don't know what's best for me father. I am not a lost little boy father, I am a man and I'm an Olympian. I'm staying right here. [Elevator door closes with Junior's Father inside]

Yul: Junior Bevil. A bad-ass mother.

Derice: You know, when the Swiss want to ge....[Team groans]

Sanka: Ah, will you shut up about the damn Swiss! I mean, it was all that eins zwei drei nonsense that got us all nervous in the first place.

Derice: Hey man, look here, I'm just trying to get us off on the right foot.

Sanka: Well the right foot for us is not the Swiss foot. I mean come on Derice, we can't be copying nobody else's style. We have our own style.

Derice: Kissing an egg is no kind of style. It's the Olympics here, it's no stupid push-cart derby. [Long pause]

Sanka: Let me tell you something rasta, I didn't come up here to forget who I am and where I come from.

Derice: Neither did I, I'm just trying to be the best I can be.

Sanka: So am I, and the best I can be is Jamaican. Look, Derice...I've known you since Julie Jeffreys asked to see your ding-a-ling and I'm telling you as a friend if we look Jamaican, walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican and IS Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.

[at a club somewhere in Jamaica]

Olympic Announcer: Where did these guys come from?

Crowd At Bar: [shouts at TV] JAMAICA!!!!

Irv: Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.

Derice: Hey coach, how will I know if I'm enough?

Irv: When you cross that finish line, you'll know.

Sanka: Derice, you dead?

Derice: No man, I'm not dead. But we have to finish the race.

Cast

Leon Robinson - Derice Bannock
Doug E. Doug - Sanka Coffie
Rawle D. Lewis - Junior Bevil
Malik Yoba - Yul Brenner
John Candy - Irving 'Irv' Blitzer
Raymond J. Barry - Kurt Hemphill
Peter Outerbridge - Josef Grool
Paul Coeur - Roger
Larry Gilman - Larry
Charles Hyatt - Whitby Bevil Sr.
Winston Stona - Coolidge
Bertina Macauley - Joy Bannock
Pauline Stone Myrie - Momma Coffie

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