Coach Taylor: It’s damn shameful, that’s what it is and it’s not gonna happen again. You act like a bunch of thugs that’s what people are gonna think of you. I don’t hold you to a higher standard; I hold you to our standard!
Maura: Have you ever been to a party before?
Tami: I sure have, but I usually try to stay awake at them, it’s more fun that way.
Jess: I’m sorry about all of this today.
Tami: You know…
Jess: And if it means anything? I was listening.
Tami: Well I’m glad. It does mean something to me.
Jess: I’ll tell ya, these rally girls, but then I can kind of understand them cuz everyone just wants to feel a part of the team.
Coach Taylor: People are watching us and it’s just important what we do on the field as we do off the field. Tell you what we’re gonna do, we’re gonna have a clean slate.
Tinker: This suit? It’s hot. I’m baking.
Hastings: I can see you want bacon.
Buddy: It tore my heart out. I wanted those children.
Coach Taylor: I know you did.
Buddy: And now she just gets to punt?
Coach Taylor: Maybe it’s not about you, it’s not about Pam, as much it is about your son. Who happens to need you. Nobody said being a dad was gonna be easy. Hell, we’re both fathers, we know that. Maybe you should look at it as an opportunity.
Vince: A man don’t leave his family. Is that talking like a man?
Vince: What’s up?
Coach Taylor: You left the grocery store early, why?
Vince: Why not?
Coach Taylor: Go ahead say what’s on your mind.
Vince: First of all you didn’t ask me about how I felt about Jess being on the team. And this shirt and tie? Whatever high standards you’re looking for this ain’t it.
Coach Taylor: Close that door. When I first met you you were climbing out of a police car. People said you were a punk and you’d never last on the field.
Vince: Screw that.I work hard for everything.
Coach Taylor: I know that and you oughta be proud of that. I am. Your teammates are proud of you. It’s about the character. It’s about striving to be better than everybody else.
Vince: Coach, my dad just got out of prison. He’s staying with me at my house. And I can’t stand him. My mom she asked me to forgive him, to be better. And you’re asking me to be better. I don’t know how to be better because he never taught me how! He never taught me to be better! He’s not around. And I’m supposed to be better!?
Coach Taylor: Listen to me. I said you need to strive to be better than everyone else. I didn’t say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That’s what character is. It’s in the trying.
Vince’s Dad: Look at you. You’re 17 years old and you’re already better than I ever was.
Vince’s Dad: Tonight, for the first time in my life, I knew what pride felt like.
