For Love of the Game (film)

"[Hearing Yankee fans boo and jeer him] I can always tell when I'm in New York."

"[writing on a baseball] Tell them I'm through, "for love of the game", Billy Chapel"

"[repeated line - his trick for concentration] Clear the mechanism."

"The game doesn't stink, Mr. Wheeler. It's a great game."

"[to himself, pitching to Sam Tuttle] Sam Tuttle. I can't think of a better reason not to be a Yankee."

"[consoling Mickey Hart after an embarrassing play in Fenway Park] There's a bunch of cameras out there right now waiting to make a joke of this, Mick. So you can either stop, give them the sound bite, do the dance. Or you can hold your head up and walk by, and the next time we're in Boston, we'll go out there and work the wall together. Don't help them make a joke out of you."

"God, I always said I would never bother You about baseball, always seemed silly. But if You could make this pain in my shoulder stop for ten minutes..."

"[while helping a traded teammate, Davis Birch, move] I ain't carryin' no books. Where's the pillows?"

"At 40 years old Billy Chapel is flirting with perhaps the greatest accomplishment in baseball and standing his way is Matt Crane hitting for Babe Nardini. Then Jesus Cabrillo and Ken Strout has a bat in his hands in the dug out and might very well get the call to bat for Jaimie Ruiz. And, you know, Steve, you get he feeling that Billy Chapel... isn't pitching against left-handers. He isn't pitching against pinch hitters.... He isn't pitching against the Yankees. He's pitching against time."

"The cathedral that is Yankee Stadium belongs to a Chapel."

"As so often happens in a ball game, there are so many other under currents, so much more that meets the eye… the owner of the beleaguered franchise selling their star player, and all the while, Billy Chapel had to make the biggest decision of his life…""

"You know, a lot of little bottles makes a big bottle, Chapy"

"The boys are all here for ya, we'll back you up, we'll be there, cause, Billy, we don't stink right now. We're the best team in baseball, right now, right this minute, because of you. You're the reason. We're not gonna screw that up, we're gonna be awesome for you right now. Just throw."

"“You’ve done it all; you’ve won every award there is to win. You’ve got a room a room reserved in Cooperstown. I don’t know how much more you have to prove. Even if you make it back, you won’t be 100%, you won’t even be 50… ”"

"Kevin Costner - Billy Chapel"

"Kelly Preston - Jane Aubrey"

"John C. Reilly - Gus Sinski"

"Jena Malone - Heather Aubrey"

"Vin Scully - himself"

"Steve Lyons - himself"

"Brian Cox - Gary Wheeler"

"J.K. Simmons - Frank Perry"

"Michael Papajohn - Sam Tuttle"

"William Newman - Fitch"

"Bob Sheppard - himself"

"Daniel Dae Kim - E.R. Doctor"