"Johnson over to Ramsey! Bilyaletdinov gets checked by Ramsey! McClanahan is there! The puck is still loose! Eleven seconds-- [original audio broadcast] You've got ten seconds, the countdown going on right now! Morrow, up to Silk! Five seconds left in the game! Do you believe in miracles?! YES!!!"

"Scott Johnson - Steve Christoff"

"Kris Wilson - Phil Verchota"

"Nate Miller - John Harrington"

"Bobby Hanson - Dave Silk"

"Nathan West - Rob McClanahan"

"Michael Mantenuto - Jack O'Callahan"

"Patrick O'Brien Demsey as Mike Eruzione"

"Eddie Cahill - Jim Craig"

"Kenneth Welsh - Doc Nagobads"

"Sean McCann - Walter Bush"

"Patricia Clarkson - Patti Brooks"

"Noah Emmerich - Coach Craig Patrick"

"Kurt Russell - Coach Herb Brooks"

"Do you believe in miracles?"

"Their game made them winners. Their spirit made them heroes."

"The story of the greatest moment in sports history."

"If you believe in yourself, Miracles can happen."

"What America needed was a miracle. What it got was a hockey game."

"[Speaking to team during the last intermission in the US-USSR game] Listen to 'em (the crowd chanting U-S-A!). That's what you've done. Now, we've come from behind in every game in this tournament so far and we can do it again. [team blankly stares] We can beat these guys! Everybody in!... Who do you play for?"

"[Addressing the team before the US-USSR game] Great moments...are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this game, not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them...and we shut them down because we can! Tonight, we... are the greatest hockey team in the world. You were born to be hockey players. Every one of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. This is your time. Their time...is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em! This... is your time! Now go out there and take it!"

"This cannot be a team of common men. Because common men go nowhere. You have to be uncommon. Again."

"[Epilogue voiceover] Two days later, the miracle was made complete. My boys defeated Finland to win the gold medal, coming from behind once again. As I watched them out there, celebrating on the ice, I realized that Patti had been right. It was a lot more than a hockey game, not only for those who watched it, but for those who played in it. I've often been asked in the years since Lake Placid what was the best moment for me. Well, it was here - the sight of 20 young men of such differing backgrounds now standing as one. Young men willing to sacrifice so much of themselves, all for an unknown. A few years later, the U.S. began using professional athletes at the Games - "Dream Teams". I always found that term ironic because now that we have Dream Teams, we seldom ever get to dream. But on one weekend, as America and the world watched, a group of remarkable young men gave the nation what it needed most - a chance, for one night, not only to dream, but a chance, once again, to believe."

"You keep playing this way, you won't beat anyone that's good, let alone great! You want to make this team, then you better start playing at a level that's gonna FORCE ME TO KEEP YOU HERE! AGAIN!"

"You better think about something else, each and every one of you. When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates...and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back! GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD! AGAIN!"

"You think you can win on talent alone? Gentlemen, you don't have enough talent to win on talent alone. Again!"

"Great gobs of goose shit!"

"I'm 39, and I'm saying "Moo, cow!" in a river! Do you believe this!?"

"Let's bring out the cake!"

"Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place."

"[to a classroom full of children on Career Day] Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you’re a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, “What happened to my twenties?” Your forties, you grow a little pot belly, you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud. One of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Fifties you have a minor surgery. You’ll call it a procedure, but it’s a surgery. Sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud, but it doesn’t matter because you can’t hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering “How come the kids don’t call? How come the kids don’t call?” The eighties, you’ve had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can’t stand but who you call mama. Any questions?"

"[singing] Rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', man my ass is swollen, Rawhide! Get 'em up, move 'em out, wake 'em up, get 'em dressed, get 'em shaved, comb their hair, Rawhide! Tie me down, tell me lies, pull my hair, smack my thighs - with a big wet strap of, Rawhide!"

"[to a Spanish doctor treating a puncture wound on his buttock] Excuse me, el doctor! Helloooo...? Don't sew anything up that's supposed to remain open, OK?"

"To Curly, as they're delivering a calf.] You know, this was not in the brochure."

"[while Phil is taking pictures of Mitch getting his butt wound stitched] Phil, let the man keep what's left of his dignity."

"No, that was "I like your ass; can I wear it as a hat?"."

"TRUSTED us? They don't even KNOW us! They followed us because we yelled "yah!"."

"What'd ya use for protection, Phil; paper or plastic?"

"Charge all this to my Visa [spits out chewing tobacco and it lands on a denim shirt for sale] I'll take that shirt, too."

"If hate were people, I'd be China!!"

"[Seeing Bonnie for the first time] You know, when I was alive, I would've found her attractive."

"Now let's have some peace and quiet around here, for Christ's sakes! I'm tired! I been under a lot of stress! I lost my wife, I lost my job, and I got some sort of rash from making in the bushes!"

"[at Curly's impromptu funeral] The man ate bacon at every meal... you just can't do that!"

"I've gotta stop being a schmuck."

"I crap bigger than you."

"You're spookin' the cattle."

"She a redhead? I like redheads."

"City folk."