- Desmond McKay: [Glances at the crucifix on the wall] What are you lookin' at?
- [sitting on side of hospital bed]
- Desmond McKay: Don't look too bad up there. Oh, no, looks peaceful... nice and quiet.
- Desmond McKay: No disappointed wife, no kids driving you up the wall... ah, people admire you. How bout we switch? I'll go up on the cross, and you come down here and live in South Boston.
- Cole McKay: [about their father's prognosis] What's your problem, Terry, Don't you feel anything?
- Terry McKay: Yeah. Relief.
- Coach: [briefly looks to the side] Genealogy,
- [looks at Cole]
- Coach: you know what that is?
- Cole McKay: [unsure grimace] ... yeah.
- Coach: [after a pause] Part of the family tree. Ah, good or bad, ya come from the family ya come from.
- Coach: [after a pause] I knew your father... growing up. Hell, anyone back then who knew anything about baseball, heard of him.
- Coach: He had a gift... and he just threw it away. So I'm gonna keep my eye on you.
- Officer: [Desmond has taken his son out of the station] Be easy on the boy. You don't want a second Terry.
- Desmond McKay: [Angry and sarcastic] Right. Thanks for that enlightenment!
- Cole McKay: I thought I'd work as a waiter. For now.
- Father Magruder: You've been such a promising student. Exemplary in all ways. And now you'd prefer to serve hamburgers instead of God?
- Desmond McKay: [home from his date] That was quick. You should have chewed your food slower.
- Cole McKay: It didn't go too well.
- Desmond McKay: Didn't get any, huh?
- Cole McKay: No... I killed her bird.
- Desmond McKay: That's a new expression on me. That's not exactly a good thing, is it?
- Cole McKay: No dad, I literally killed her bird.
- Desmond McKay: How long we talking?
- Doctor: It's hard to say. Have you put your affairs in order?
- Desmond McKay: My affairs?
- [sarcastically]
- Desmond McKay: Oh sure, doc, sure. Taxes all paid up, college fund all set up for all the kids. Margaret, she's a beneficiary on a huge insurance policy I've been contributing to since day one. Everything's squared away.
- Doctor: You given any consideration to quitting drinking?
- Desmond McKay: Why? So when I'm putting my affairs in order I can see how fucked up they are?
- Desmond McKay: Baseball is exactly like life. The majority of the time absolutely nothing happens. And then, certain moments and certain days, you get all the glory in the world, or all the shit.
- Terry McKay: We're family, you and me. Black Irish. But you, you're more like black licorice. You're soft and sweet, and hollow on the inside.
- Cole McKay: We may be brothers, but I'm nothing like you.
- [last lines]
- Cole McKay: [winds up and pitches with his father watching for the first time]
- Umpire: Strike!