Cool Runnings (1993)

Leon: Derice Bannock

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Quotes 

• [repeated lines] 

  Derice Bannock : Sanka you dead?

  Sanka Coffie : Ya, mon.

• Derice Bannock : You don't see the Swiss team fighting, do you?

  Derice Bannock : You don't see the Swiss team drinking and carrying on and such.

  Sanka Coffie : And you don't see the Swiss team smiling neither.

  Sanka Coffie : In fact, if one of those Swiss boys ever come across a pretty girl, he probably yell, "eins, zwei, drei" and try to push her down some ice.

  [laughs] 

• Derice Bannock : Hey, Coach.

  Irv : Yeah?

  Derice Bannock : I have to ask you a question.

  Irv : Sure.

  Derice Bannock : But you don't have to answer if you don't want to. I mean, I want you to, but if you can't, I understand.

  Irv : You wanna know why I cheated, right?

  Derice Bannock : Yes, I do.

  Irv : That's a fair question. It's quite simple, really. I had to win. You see, Derice, I'd made winning my whole life. And when you make winning your whole life, you have to keep on winning, no matter what. You understand that?

  Derice Bannock : No, I don't understand. You won two gold medals. You had it all.

  Irv : Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without one, you'll never be enough with one.

  Derice Bannock : Hey, coach... how will I know if I'm enough?

  Irv : When you cross that finish line tomorrow, you'll know.

• Sanka Coffie : The key elements to a successful sled team are a steady driver, and three strong runners to push off down the ice. Ice? Ice!

  Derice Bannock : Well, it's kind of a winter sport, you know.

  Sanka Coffie : You mean winter, as in ice?

  Derice Bannock : Possibly.

  Sanka Coffie : You mean winter, as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ice?

  Derice Bannock : Maybe.

  Sanka Coffie : See ya!

• Sanka Coffie : 'Nuff people say, you know they can't believe, Jamaica, we have a bobsled team. We have the one Derice...

  Derice Bannock : And the one Junior...

  Junior Bevill : Yu-

  [Yul gives him a "don't even think about it" look] 

  Junior Bevill : ... Sanka!

  Derice Bannock : The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinters...

  Sanka Coffie , Derice Bannock , Junior Bevill : Go to Olympics, fight for Jamaica!

• Derice Bannock : [Derice drums over his teamates' helmets] 

  Sanka Coffie : Hey! Hey! What you doin?

  Derice Bannock : This is what the Swiss do to psyche themselves up!

  Sanka Coffie : They also make them little pocket knives, too, but I don't see you doing that!

• [Pre-race cheer] 

  Kids : Who's the captain of our crew? Who's a friend to me and you? Kinda nice, good-looking too! Sanka, Sanka, yay, Sanka!

  Sanka Coffie : Ha ha ha! Get back to work!

  Derice Bannock : Who's the big hot bag of air, who doesn't have to comb his hair? Who doesn't bathe and doesn't care, Sanka, Sanka, yay, Sanka!

• Sanka Coffie : Hey Derice! Ya dead?

  Derice Bannock : No mon, I'm not dead. We have to finish the race...

• Derice Bannock : [Derice sees Sanka's breath in the cold Calgary air]  Sanka mon, whatcha smoking?

  Sanka Coffie : I'm not smoking, I'm breathing!

• Derice Bannock : "Cool Runnings" means "Peace Be The Journey."

• [Sanka reveals a hot water bottle nestled under his shirt] 

  Derice Bannock : I can't believe you're still cold, mon.

  Sanka Coffie : Cold? I'm freezing my royal Rastafarian nay-nays off!

• Sanka Coffie : Alright. Alright, alright, alright, mon. So, let's talk about this bill-sled team.

  Derice Bannock : No, bobsled team.

  Sanka Coffie : Whoever. Now, about the Wheaties box. I'm gunna be on it myself, right?

  Derice Bannock : No, mon, you gunna be on it with me.

• Sanka Coffie : Look, Star. Let me tell you a little something, alright? When you need something from me, you don't have to hand me a bunch of lines. All you have to do is look at me in the eye and say, "Sanka, you are my best friend, we've been through a whole heap together, and I really, really need you."

  Derice Bannock : Sanka, you're right. And you are my best friend. We've been through a whole lot together.

  Sanka Coffie : "Heap, heap!"

  Derice Bannock : Sorry, mon. Whole heap together.

  Sanka Coffie : "And I really, really need you."

  Derice Bannock : And I really, really need you.

  Sanka Coffie : [nods head slowly, then]  ... Forget it!

• Josef Grul : Hey, Jamaica! Watch out for Number Twelve turn. Scary, ja?

  Derice Bannock : What's his problem?

  Irv : He's Josef Grul. He's one of the best drivers in the world.

  Yul Brenner : Yeah, he's one of the biggest ASSHOLES in the world, too.

• Derice Bannock : You know, when the Swiss want to ge...

  Sanka Coffie : Ah, will you shut up about the damn Swiss! I mean, it was all that "eins zwei drei" nonsense that got us all nervous in the first place.

  Derice Bannock : Hey, man, look here, I'm just trying to get us off on the right foot.

  Sanka Coffie : Well, the right foot for us is not the Swiss foot. I mean, come on, Derice, we can't be copying nobody else's style. We have our own style.

  Derice Bannock : Kissing an egg is no kind of style. It's the Olympics here, it's no stupid push-cart derby.

  [Long pause] 

  Sanka Coffie : Let me tell you something, rasta, I didn't come up here to forget who I am and where I come from.

  Derice Bannock : Neither did I. I'm just trying to be the best I can be.

  Sanka Coffie : So am I, and the best I can be is Jamaican. Look, Derice, I've known you since Julie Jeffreys asked to see your ding-a-ling, and I'm telling you as a friend... if we look Jamaican, walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican and IS Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.

• Sanka Coffie : Rise and shine!

  Derice Bannock : It's butt-whippin' time!

• Derice Bannock : Hey, you can pee now.

  Sanka Coffie : Um too late.

• Sanka Coffie : You mean winter, as in ICE?

  Derice Bannock : Maybe.

  Sanka Coffie : You mean winter, as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ICE?

  Derice Bannock : Possibly.

  Sanka Coffie : See ya.

  Derice Bannock : Where you going?

  Sanka Coffie : I'm going to take a hot bath, I'm getting cold just thinking about all this ICE.

• Derice Bannock : Hey, man, you could be famous. You could have your picture on a Wheaties box. But you said "no," and that's all right, because I don't need you. Everybody is going to want to be on my bobsled team!

• Joy Bannock : [Joy and Momma Coffie sit in the stands as they wait for Sanka's pushcart race to begin. Derice comes along, and stands next to Joy. Joy kisses him]  Derice, is Sanka ready?

  Momma Coffie : Ready? That boy's never ready! He's a lazy, sorry, no-good bag of bones.

  Derice Bannock , Joy Bannock : [laugh loudly at Momma Coffie's statement, thinking that she's just joking] 

  Momma Coffie : [seriously]  So what ya laughing at?

• Derice Bannock : I can't believe the trials are finally here.

  Joy Bannock : You nervous?

  Derice Bannock : I'm not nervous. I'm ready. I've been ready for this day my whole life. I don't care how fast they run, I'm going to run faster. I don't care how much they want it, I want it more. I'm going to the Olympics, baby. I feel it. I'm going to win the gold.

  Joy Bannock : Derice, are you nervous?

  Derice Bannock : I'm terrified.

• Coolidge : Mr. Coolidge, who is the other man in the picture with my father?

  Coolidge : Irving Blitzer. He's an American who lives here. Unless, of course, he's been arrested or shot.

  Derice Bannock : Excuse me?

  Coolidge : Well, he's a bookie now. Takes his bets in a small pool hall just past Sandy Bay.

  Derice Bannock : Isn't that a gold medal around his neck?

  Coolidge : Oh, yeah. That lunatic was an Olympic bobsledder who tried to get your father to switch sports. He had some theory about using track sprinters to push the bobsleds. Some ridiculous thing like that. Can you imagine a Jamaican bobsledder?

• Sanka Coffie : [singing]  Some people say you know them can't believe, Jamaica, We have a bobsled team

  Derice Bannock : Yes!

  Sanka Coffie : We have the one Derice

  Derice Bannock : And the one Junior

  Junior Bevill : You - Sanka

  Derice Bannock : The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinters

  Sanka Coffie , Derice Bannock , Junior Bevill : Go to Olympics, Fight for Jamaica!

• Sanka Coffie : So what's it gonna be, star? What are the people gonna be screamin' when Jamaica takes the hill?

  Derice Bannock : I say we call it - "Cool Runnings."

• Derice Bannock : Hey, Coach.

  Irv : Yeah?

  Derice Bannock : I have to ask you a question.

  Irv : Sure.

  Derice Bannock : You don't have to answer if you don't want to. I mean, I want you to, but if you can't, I understand.

  Irv : You want to know why I cheated, right?

  Derice Bannock : Yes I do.

  Irv : That's a fair question. It's quite simple really. I had to win. You see, Derice, I'd made winning my whole life, and when you make winning your whole life, you have to keep on winning, no matter what. You understand that?

  Derice Bannock : No, I don't understand, Coach. You had two gold medals. You had it all.

  Irv : Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.

  Derice Bannock : Hey, Coach, how will I know if I'm enough?

  Irv : When you cross that finish line, you'll know.

• Derice Bannock : Excuse me. Are you Mr. Irving Blitzer?

  Irv : Well, that depends on who's asking.

• [the team are finishing painting their sled and drinking Cokes in bottles] 

  Derice Bannock : Fellas, here's to followin' your dreams.

  Yul Brenner : [as they clink bottles]  Yes, man. Follow your dreams.

  Irv : I said it to your father and I'll say it again: sprinters make the best bobsledders.

  Derice Bannock : Here's to sprintin'!

  [They clink bottles again] 

• Derice Bannock : Excuse me, are you Irving Blitzer?

  Irv : That depends on who's asking.