"To have never taken a solitary road trip across country? I mean everybody's got to take a road trip, at least once in their lives. Just you and some music."

"Some music needs air. Roll down your window."

"Men see things in a box, and women see them in a round room."

"I spend so much time thinking about all the answers to the problem ... that I forget what the problem actually was."

"I want you to get into the deep beautiful melancholy of everything that's happened."

"Emily Rutherfurd - Cindy Hasboro"

"Shane Lyons - Charlie Bill"

"Ted Manson - Sad Joe"

"Tim Devitt - Mitch Baylor"

"Alice Marie Crowe - Aunt Lena"

"Dan Biggers - Uncle Roy"

"Eric Stoltz - Vahlere"

"I am looking for a "dare to be great" situation."

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that."

"She broke up with me. What do I do? Can she come back? How can I get her back? I can't - I can't get her to talk to me. It's all so fucked up. I feel like crying. She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."

"[leaving a message for Diane] Maybe I didn't really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we're all just hurling towards an apocalypse, in which case it's not your fault. I'm been thinking about all these things and... you're probably standing there monitoring. And one more thing - about the letter. Nuke it. Flame it. Destroy it. - It hurts me to know it's out there. Later."

"What I really want to do with my life - what I want to do for a living - is I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it."

"She's got every thing going for her. He's going for her with every thing he's got."

"To know Lloyd Dobler is to love him. Diane Court is about to know Lloyd Dobler."

"A Lloyd meets girl story"

"John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler"

"Ione Skye - Diane Court"

"John Mahoney - Jim Court"

"Lili Taylor - Corey Flood"

"Polly Platt - Mrs. Flood"

"Bebe Neuwirth - Mrs. Evans"

"Jeremy Piven - Mark"

"Philip Baker Hall - IRS Boss"

"Joan Cusack - Constance Dobler"

"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."

"Jim Irsay - Himself"

"Kerry Collins - Himself"

"Warren Moon - Himself"

"Katarina Witt - Herself"

"Troy Aikman - Himself"

"Art Monk - Himself"

"Herman Moore - Himself"

"Ki-Jana Carter - Himself"

"Rob Moore - Himself"

"Drew Bledsoe - Himself"

"Rick Mirer - Himself"

"Johnnie Morton - Himself"

"Wayne Fontes - Himself"

"Mike Tirico - Himself"

"Rich Kotite - Himself"

"Drew Rosenhaus - Himself"

"Jeffrey Lurie - Himself (as Jeff Lurie)"

"Mel Kiper - Himself"