The Neil McCauley “A Book about Metals” Award for Best Line from the Movie
"I believe we have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that"; "Some mistakes I guess we never stopped paying for"; "Go pick me out a winner, Bobby"; "That ball's as dry as your granddaddy's scalp"; "Can't spell it, but it eats pretty good"; "The only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it"
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- The two-lives line and 'some mistakes I guess we never stopped paying for' open the list with the clips played, plus 'go pick me out a winner, Bobby' and the Whammer's granddaddy's scalp line, called real poetry.
- Pop's recurring line that his mama wanted him to be a farmer is loved every time; the quietly funniest moment is Red answering Pop's dead-mother story with 'tough'; Red's 'can't spell it, but it eats pretty good' and Pop's 'blinding' after Bump lost it in the sun on an overcast day are also picked.
- 'Some mistakes I guess we never stopped paying for' is an awesome quote that translates to just about anything, though it would be a weird high school yearbook quote; Roy is seen as carrying the weight of his transgressions.
- Still cannot figure out what Roy did wrong. — Bill Simmons
- The last quote, 'the only thing I know about the dark is you can't see in it', is liked because it is not poetic but tells you Roy is a literal man just trying to see the ball and get to the next step in his life.