Irv: You wanna know why I cheated right? Derice: Yes I do. Irv: That’s a fair question. It’s quite simple really. I had to win. You see Derice, I’d made winning my whole life, and when you make winning your whole life, you have to keep on winning. No matter what. You understand that? Derice: No I don’t understand coach. Ya had two gold medals. Ya had it all. Irv: Derice…A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.
Coach Gary Gaines: Well it took me a long time to realize that uh…there ain't much difference between winning and losing except for how the outside world treats you. But inside you it's about all the same ya know. It really is. Fact of the matter is. I believe that uh, our only curses are the ones that are self-imposed. You know what I'm sayin'? We uh, all of us, dig our own holes.
Billy Beane: You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing Chave. I hate it! I hate losing more than I even wanna win. And there's a difference.