Daily Dialogue — December 7, 2018

Coach Bud Kilmer: [to the trainer, at halftime in the trainer’s room, with Wendell on the table] Give him the shot!
Mox: If you give him that shot, you can find yourself another fucking quarterback.
Coach Bud Kilmer: You about ready to lose that scholarship, boy?
Mox: If it keeps that needle out of his leg? Absolutely.
Coach Bud Kilmer: Good.
Mox: Fuck it, I’m out.

— Varsity Blues (1999), written by W. Peter Iliff

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Coach.

Trivia: The book Mox was reading on the sidelines, hidden inside the team playbook, was Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sometimes a coach gets what he wants. Other times… not, especially when he puts winning over the well-being of his players.