Jerry Maguire

"Who had I become? Just another shark in a suit? Two days later at our corporate conference in Miami, a breakthrough. Breakdown? Breakthrough. I couldn't escape one simple thought: I hated myself. No, no, no, here's what it was: I hated my place in the world. I had so much to say and no one to listen. And then it happened. It was the oddest, most unexpected thing. I began writing what they call a mission statement. Not a memo, a mission statement. You know, a suggestion for the future of our company. A night like this doesn't come along very often. I seized it. What started out as one page 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 had forgotten what was important.I wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote and I'm not even a writer. I was remembering even the words of the original sports agent, my mentor, the late great Dickie Fox who said: 'The key to this business is personal relationships.' Suddenly, it was all pretty clear. The answer was fewer clients. Less money. More attention. Caring for them, caring for ourselves and the games, too. Just starting our lives, really. Hey - I'll be the first to admit, what I was writing was somewhat touchy-feely. I didn't care. I have lost the ability to bullshit. It was the me I'd always wanted to be. I took it in a bag to a Copymat in the middle of the night and printed up 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.'...Everybody got a copy...I was 35. I had started my life."

"Bob Sugar said I don't understand what it's like to be a black man? I'm Mister black people!"

"I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game featuring you, while singing your own song in a new commercial, starring you, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not sleep until that happens. I'll give you fifteen minutes to call me back."

"Look I don't have all the answers. To be honest, in life, I failed as often as I succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success."

"I got a shelf life of ten years, tops. My next contract's gotta bring me the dollars that'll last me and mine a long time. Shit, I'm out of this sport in 5 years. What's my family gonna live on? Huh?"

"Anyone else would have left you by now, but I'm sticking with you. And if I have to ride your ass like Zorro, you're gonna show me the money."

"Everybody loved him... Everybody disappeared."

"The rest of his life begins now."

"The journey is everything."

"Show me the money!"

"Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire"

"Cuba Gooding Jr. - Rod Tidwell"

"Renée Zellweger - Dorothy Boyd"

"Kelly Preston - Avery Bishop"

"Jerry O'Connell - Frank Cushman"

"Jay Mohr - Bob Sugar"

"Bonnie Hunt - Laurel Boyd"

"Regina King - Marcee Tidwell"

"Jonathan Lipnicki - Ray Boyd"

"Todd Louiso - Chad the Nanny"

"Mark Pellington - Bill Dooler"

"Jeremy Suarez - Tyson Tidwell"

"Jared Jussim - Dicky Fox"

"Glenn Frey - Dennis Wilburn"

"Eric Stoltz - Ethan Valhere"

"Beau Bridges - Matt Cushman"

"Drake Bell - Jesse Remo"

"Lucy Liu - Former Girlfriend"

"Emily Procter - Former Girlfriend"

"Roy Firestone - Himself"

"Al Michaels - Himself"

"Dan Dierdorf - Himself"

"Frank Gifford - Himself"

"Mel Kiper - Himself"

"Jeffrey Lurie - Himself (as Jeff Lurie)"

"Drew Rosenhaus - Himself"

"Rich Kotite - Himself"

"Mike Tirico - Himself"

"Wayne Fontes - Himself"

"Johnnie Morton - Himself"

"Rick Mirer - Himself"

"Drew Bledsoe - Himself"

"Rob Moore - Himself"

"Ki-Jana Carter - Himself"

"Herman Moore - Himself"

"Art Monk - Himself"

"Troy Aikman - Himself"

"Katarina Witt - Herself"

"Warren Moon - Himself"

"Kerry Collins - Himself"