Remember the Titans is an American biographical sports film based on the true story of an African-American coach Herman Boone.
Denzel Washington is the leading role in the film and it’s considered to be one of the best football films in history.
The movie is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Boaz Yakin and it was released on the 29th of September, 2005.
Here’s our collection of the best Remember The Titans quotes:
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52 Meaningful Remember The Titans Quotes
1. “This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
2. “Once you step on that bus you ain’t got your mama no more. You got your brothers on the team and you got your daddy. You know who your daddy is, doncha? Gary, if you want to play on this football team, you answer me when I ask you who is your daddy? Who’s your daddy, Gary? Who’s your daddy?” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
3. “Whatever kind of ambition it took to do what you did around here, this world could use a lot more of it” – Carol Boone, Nicole Ari Parker
4. “Why the clouds, Sunshine?” – Petey Jones, Donald Faison
5. “Coach, I’m hurt. I’m not dead.” – Gerry Bertier, Ryan Hurst
6. “My daddy coached in Alexandria, he worked so hard my momma left him, but I stayed with coach, he needed me on that field.” – Sheryl Yoast, Hayden Panettiere
7. “Yes you can. When I was fifteen years old I lost my mother and my father in the same month Ronnie, same month. Twelve brothers and sisters, I was the youngest one of them, now I wasn’t ready either, but they needed me. Your team needs you tonight, you’re the colonel, you’re going to command your troops!” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
8. “Ladies and gentleman! I’ve got an announcement to make. We got Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin going to camp with us this year. Jerry tells the jokes, Dean sings the songs, and gets the girl. Let’s give em a round of applause.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
9. “According to Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power! Well that football field out there tonight, that’s our universe. Let’s rule it like Titans!” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
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10. “I swear to God, I’m gonna hit you so hard, by the time you come to, oooh boy, you’re gonna need a new haircut!” – Gerry Bertier, Ryan Hurst
11. “When all this is over… me and you are gonna move out to the same neighborhood together. OK? And, um … and we’ll get old, and we’ll get fat. And there ain’t gonna be all this black-white between us.” – Julius Campbell, Wood Harris
12. “Shut up. I don’t want to see your smilin’ and shuff in’ and hear all your minstrel show singing on this bus.” – Julius Campbell, Wood Harris
13. “Why don’t you tell your white buddies to block for Rev better? Because they have not blocked for him worth a plug nickel, and you know it! Nobody plays. Yourself included. I’m supposed to wear myself out for the team? What team? Nah, Nah what I’m gonna do is look out for myself and I’ma get mine.” – Julius Campbell, Wood Harris
14. “I’m not gonna talk to you tonight about winnin’ and losin’. You’re already winners ’cause you didn’t kill each other up at camp.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
15. “You’re a Hall of Famer in my book!” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
16. “Why should I give a hoot about you?” – Julius Campbell, Wood Harris
17. “We’re in a fight. You boys are doing all that you can do. Anybody can see that. Win or lose … we gonna walk out of this stadium tonight with our heads held high. Do your best. That’s all anybody can ask for.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
18. “You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. If we don’t come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don’t care if you like each other of not, but you will respect each other. And maybe… I don’t know, maybe we’ll learn to play this game like men.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
19. “Cause baby there ain’t no mountain high enough, ain’t no valley low enough …” – Blue Stanton, Earl Poitier
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20. “Particulars? Man, no matter what I tell you, you ain’t never gonna know nothing about me.” – Julius Campbell, Wood Harris
21. “Hey now, all that rubbin’ ain’t gonna make them golden locks grow back no faster, now, you know that right?” – Petey Jones, Donald Faison
22. “Y’all are acting like a bunch of sissies! Quit it!” – Sheryl Yoast, Hayden Panettiere
23. “We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts, and then you will run a mile. Perfection. Let’s go to work.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
24. “Coach Boone, you did a good job up here. You ran a tough camp from what I can see.” – Sheryl Yoast, Hayden Panettiere
25. “Tonight we’ve got Hayfield. Like all the other schools in this conference, they’re all white. They don’t have to worry about race. We do. let me tell you something: you don’t let anyone come between us. Nothing tears us apart. In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power. Well that football field out there, that’s our universe. Let’s rule it like titans.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
26. “You look like a bunch of fifth-grade sissies after a catfight! You got anger, that’s good you’re gonna need it, you got aggression that’s even better you’re gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection!” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
27. “I don’t scratch my head unless it itches and I don’t dance unless I hear some music. I will not be intimidated. That’s just the way it is.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
28. “Sometimes life is hard for no reason at all.” – Carol Boone, Nicole Ari Parker
29. “I hope you boys have learned as much from me this year as I’ve learned from you. You’ve taught this city how to trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him. And I guess it’s about time I joined the club.” – Coach Bill Yoast, Will Patton
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30. “I know football, and what you did with those boys. You were the right man for the job, Coach!” – Coach Bill Yoast, Will Patton
31. “This is where they fought the battle of Gettysburg. Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we are still fighting among ourselves today. This greenfield right here, painted red, bubblin’ with the blood of young boys. Smoke and hot lead pouring right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men. I killed my brother with malice in my heart. Hatred destroyed my family. You listen, and you take a lesson from the dead. If we don’t come together right now on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed, just like they were. I don’t care if you like each other of not, but you will respect each other. And maybe … I don’t know, maybe we’ll learn to play this game like men.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
32. “There’s too much male bonding in here.” – Julius Campbell, Wood Harris
33. “Man I just gave your momma a piggy-back ride and she weighs twice as much as I do!” – Louie Lastik, Ethan Suplee
34. “A water break? Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don’t get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside your mind!” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
35. “People say that it can’t work, black and white; well here we make it work, every day. We have our disagreements, of course, but before we reach for hate, always, always, we remember the Titans.” – Older Sheryl Yoast
36. “Everywhere we go — everywhere we go … people wanna know — people wanna know …. who we are — who we are, so we tell them — so we tell them … We are the Titans! … We are the Titans! … The mighty, mighty Titans! — The mighty, mighty Titans!” – Titans Team
37. “In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, it’s bigger than Christmas day.” – Sheryl Yoast, Hayden Panettiere
38. “All right, now, I don’t want them to gain another yard! You blitz … all … night! If they cross the line of scrimmage, I’m gonna take every last one of you out! You make sure they remember, forever, the night they played the Titans! Leave no doubt!” – Coach Bill Yoast, Will Patton
39. “I figured as long I’m going to be in school, I might as well hit some people while I’m at it.” – Louie Lastik, Ethan Suplee
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40. “Well, I met Coach Taber. He won’t let blacks play on his team. The way I see it, if these boys can fight a war together, they can play football together.” – Colonel William G. Bass, Andrew Masset
41. “The best player will play, color won’t matter.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
42. “We’re in a tough spot, coach. You, me, the whole city. I think it’d go a long way to smooth things over if you’d stay, work on the staff, be a defensive coordinator, assistant head coach.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
43. “Alice, are you blind? Don’t you see the family resemblance? That’s my brother.” – Gerry Bertier, Ryan Hurst
44. “Well I’m very happy to have the approval of a five-year-old.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
45. “I’m a winner. I’m going to win.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
46. “Get back in there! You know what I’m talking about. You can’t be afraid of him!” – Coach Bill Yoast, Will Patton
47. “Now, I ain’t saying that I’m perfect, ’cause I’m not. And I ain’t gonna never be. None of us are. But we have won every single game we have played till now. So this team is perfect. We stepped out on that field that way tonight.” – Julius Campbell, Wood Harris
48. “Does the term ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ mean anything to you?” – Blue Stanton, Earl Poitier
49. “I was afraid of you, Julius. I only saw what I was afraid of, and now I know I was only hating my brother.” – Gerry Bertier, Ryan Hurst
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50. “Attitude reflects leadership, captain.” – Julius Campbell, Wood Harris
51. “Honesty? You want honesty? Alright, honestly, I think you’re nothing. Nothing but a pure waste of God-given talent. You don’t listen to nobody, man! Not even Doc or Boone! Shiver push on the line every time and you blow right past ’em! Push ’em, pull ’em, do something! You can’t run over everybody in this league, and every time you do you leave one of your teammates hanging out to dry, me in particular!” – Gerry Bertier, Ryan Hurst
52. “Now I may be a mean cuss. But I’m the same mean cuss with everybody out there on that football field. The world don’t give a damn about how sensitive these kids are, especially the young black kids. You ain’t doin’ these kids a favor by patronizing them. You crippling them; You crippling them for life.” – Coach Herman Boone, Denzel Washington
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