The Longest Yard (1974)

James Hampton: Caretaker

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Quotes 

• [Caretaker and Crewe are watching a prisoner go through his workout] 

  Caretaker : Well, there he is. Connie Shokner, baddest cat in the joint. Even the guards are scared of him. He killed three people on the outside and two since he's been in here.

  Crewe : Yeah, that karate's some bad stuff.

  Caretaker : Oh, that was before he learned karate.

  Crewe : Say, what's he doing now?

  Caretaker : Nobody's ever had the guts to ask him.

• Paul Crewe : Whattya got for me, Sunshine?

  Caretaker : I can get you steroids, vitamins, greenies, anything you want. You name it. I'm the best hustler in the joint.

  Paul Crewe : How much of what this guy says he can do, can he do?

  Nate Scarboro : He can get you laid in here... with a woman.

• Caretaker : Most of these old boys don't have nothing. Never had nothing to start with. But you, You had it all. Then you let your teammates down, got yourself caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

  Paul Crewe : Oh I did, did I?

  Caretaker : Oh I ain't saying you did or you didn't. All I'm saying is that you could have robbed banks, sold dope or stole your grandmother's pension checks and none of us would have minded. But shaving points off of a football game, man that's un-American.

• Paul Crewe : What's his name?

  Caretaker : Indian.

  Paul Crewe : That makes sense.

  Caretaker : Now don't go making any ethnic jokes.

  [They meet the Indian] 

  Paul Crewe : Paul Crewe. Heard you played some football.

  The Indian : Yeah.

  Paul Crewe : Where?

  The Indian : Oklahoma State.

  Paul Crewe : Oklahoma State U?

  The Indian : Prison.

  Paul Crewe : Well, first thing we have to do is get you out of here.

  The Indian : How?

  [Paul looks back at Caretaker] 

  Paul Crewe : Well, we'll work on it.

• Crewe : [looking at a shirtless Shokner doing some unusual physical moves]  What's he doin' now?

  Caretaker : Nobody's ever had the guts to ask him.

• Caretaker : Now to me, that's biscuits and gravy.

• Paul Crewe : You take your football down here real serious, don't you?

  Caretaker : You mind if I ask you one question?

  Paul Crewe : Yeah, I do.

  Caretaker : Why'd you do it?

  Paul Crewe : It's a long story.

  Caretaker : Well, I got eight years.

• Caretaker : [to Crewe when he first meets him]  You shoulda had breakfast this morning... It was real yummy.

  [He laughs]