I've been doin' this for too many years...
Any Given Sunday (1999)
TONY
A screenplay character in Any Given Sunday (1999).
- lines
- 400
- words
- 6,923
- scenes
- 44
- dialogue
- 26%
- avg words / line
- 17
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 205
source review flagged 1 dialogue line
Sample dialogue
... As we get older, some things are taken away... well, that's part of life, but you only learn that when you lose something. You find out that life is this game of inches! So's football. Because the margin for error in either game, football or life, is so small... so small, guys. One half-step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half-second too slow or too fast and you don't quite catch it 'cause it's half a fingertip away. The inches we need are everywhere around us, they're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. Mandrake forgot that. He was grabbing for miles when he only needed inches. And on this team there are no shortcuts. There are no more Doctor Mandrakes. On this team we fight for that inch! We tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch! We claw with our fingernails for that inch 'cause when you add up all those inches, that is what makes the fucking difference between winning and losing -- between living and dying... In any fight I can tell you this, it's the guy who's willing to die who's going to win that inch.
scene 214 — INT. SHARK LOCKER ROOM - LOCKER ROOM #1 - FOLLOWINGYou heard me.
scene 56 — EXT. TUNNEL - NIGHTI was there, Christy -- remember? We're solid, we're just not inspired. We got too many free agents...
scene 17 — INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS ACTION - DAY... Looks like Cap's gonna make it back in time for the playoffs... I'm gonna start him.
scene 171 — SAME SCENE - LATERLook, you the offense, why do you think we work on the blitz package all week? We've lost two quarterbacks in one half of football 'cause our line can't pick up a goddamn backside bandit on max protection!! You and I know this is goddamn stupid football, and you're stressing this shit outta me! We've worked on the calls over and over again but you have no goddamn focus or concentration! McKenna, keep your head on a swivel, you've got to slide out there and pick up that robber -- roll up those outside linebackers! Beamen, know your site adjustments! Sanderson and Fox will break off their routes but you have to deliver it on time. We've had two goddamn turnovers this half, you guys are dumping on my turnover ratio.
scene 49 — INT. SHARK LOCKER ROOM - LOCKER ROOM #1 - HALFTIME -
Bookends
So, Miss P., I look forward to seeing you next year across those sidelines... and calling it what it always was and still is: a game. Let's keep it that way... So long, everybody.