Tangerine Quotes
"The house looked strange. It was completely empty now, and the door was flung wide open, like something wild had just escaped from it."
"Once we dump this garbage bag, that will be it. That will be the last evidence that the Fisher family ever lived in Houston."
"I'm not supposed to do that because my glasses are so thick."
"I don't believe that. But I turned back around anyway."
"And that was that. The keys were locked in. The zombie was locked out. And we were on our way."
"For Mom the move from Texas to Florida was a military operation."
"This scenery was not what I had expected at all."
"I suddenly had this crazy feeling like I wanted to bolt from the car and run through the fields until I couldn't run anymore."
"But once we got farther south and crossed into Tangerine County, we did start to see groves of citrus trees."
"You never hear people bragging that their dining-room set is solid grapefruit, do you?"
"Then, in an instant, in the blink of an eye, we crossed over from this wasteland into a place carpeted with green grass."
"It's like we're major leaguers who've been sent down to a minor-league city for a while."
"I care about my son and what might happen to him. I can't even imagine what Jack Costello and his wife are going through tonight."
"I've been called worse. What's important is that I'm a player, and they all recognize that."
"You think 'cause your mommy buys you a jockstrap you're automatically on my team?"
"You're gonna be wearing those glasses on the other side of your head if you think that."
"If you're a War Eagle, then you're a War Eagle. You got brothers to back you up."
"Remember who you are. Remember who you represent."
"You think we gotta take every chump who shows up?"
"You think this is trout season here or something?"
"Nobody's gonna mess with you, not anyplace, not anytime."
"Erik can't laugh this off. Erik can't leave this humiliation behind him. Someone has to pay for this."
"You concentrate on us putting the ball in the goal. If we get over there and lose our heads, lose our focus, we lose everything that we worked for."
"This is where losers act like losers and winners act like winners."
"We struck swiftly, with just a couple of passes, and bang—into the goal."
"You can't stop 'em from eatin' wood any more than you can stop that muck fire from burning or them mosquitoes from suckin' blood."
"It's like Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous out there."
"But all that aside, Betty Bright was great, and she had a great amateur career."
"This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me."
"I'm overcome by the beauty of it all."
"All I remember next is Mom shouting 'Paul!' as I took off, flying through the air."
"I felt one huge hand come around and grab my hair, yanking me forward, right over his head."
"Dad worked his jaw muscles, at a complete loss for words."
"I ran for my life, at full speed, like I was sprinting down the sideline of an endless soccer field."
"You're going to pay for what happened tonight."
"Who's going to believe you, you blind little geek?"
"Don't spend your life hiding under the bleachers, little brother. The truth shall set you free."
"The old record had been shattered. The new record was mine."
"Antoine Thomas is the greatest quarterback in the history of Tangerine County."
"We're family. That's all I know. We'll help you any way we can."
"You're paying now for what you didn't do back then."
"I saw—I heard Erik Fisher tell him to do it."
"You take care of yourself, brother. I'll see you in the groves."