Cool Runnings Quotes

Cool Runnings is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Cool Runnings stopped airing in 1970.

It features Plain list, * Dawn Steel; Susan B. Landau; Chris Meledandri * Jeffrey Bydalek as producer, Hans Zimmer in charge of musical score, and Phedon Papamichael as head of cinematography.

Cool Runnings is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Cool Runnings is 98 minutes long. Cool Runnings is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

The cast includes: Leon Robinson as Derice Bannock, Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie, Malik Yoba as Yul Brenner, Rawle D. Lewis as Junior Bevill, John Candy as Irv, Peter Outerbridge as Josef Grul, Doug E. Doug as Man, and Bertina Macauley as Joy Bannock.

Cool Runnings Quotes

John Candy as Irv

• (John Candy) "Oh, yeah, just one little drawback to this delightful winter sport. The high-speed crash. Ooh. That hurt. Always remember, your bones will not break in a bobsled. No, no, no. They shatter."

• (British Official) "We must also be concerned about the potential for embarrassment."
• (John Candy) "Oh, pardon me. I didn't realize that four black guys in a bobsled could make you blush."

• (John Candy) "It's not so much the heat, it's the humidity that'll kill you."

• (John Candy) "That's very funny."

• (John Candy) "All right, Derice. Let me lay out some difficulties for you. Snow: you don't have any. It's nine hundred degrees out there. Time: you don't have any. The Olympics are in three months. And me: you don't have me. As far as I'm concerned, the sport of bobsledding no longer exists. I don't want to do it, I don't want to coach it, and most of all, and I mean most of all, I don't want to be within two thousand miles of anybody who does. Now did you follow all that?"

• (John Candy) "You see Sanka, the driver has to work harder than anyone. He's the first to show up, and the last to leave. When his buddies are all out drinking beer, he's up in his room studying pictures of turns. You see, a driver must remain focused one hundred percent at all times. Not only is he responsible for knowing every inch of every course he races, he's also responsible for the lives of the other men in the sled. Now do you want that responsibility?"
• (Doug E. Doug) "I say we make Derice the driver."
• (John Candy) "So do I, Sanka. So do I."

• (John Candy) "This is what it's all about, this is whether you win or lose the race, right here in the push start. This is where you're gonna practice, right here, right here in a Volkswagon."

• (John Candy) "Winning a bobsled race is about one thing: the push-start. Now I know you dainty, little track-stars think you're fast. Well, heh, let's see how fast you are when you push a six-hundred pound sled. Now a respectable start-time is five-point-seven seconds. If you speed demons can't whip off an even six flat, you have a better chance of becoming a barbershop quartet."

• (John Candy) "I told the owner of the bar that these guys were mentally disturbed, so he's not going to press any charges."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Yeah. Sled god does it again."
• (John Candy) "Just shut up, Sanka."

• (John Candy) "It's a fair question. It's quite simple, really. I had to win. You see, Derice, I had made winning my whole life, and when you make winning your whole life, you have to keep on winning, no matter what. Understand?"
• (Leon Robinson) "No, I don't understand. You won two gold medals. You had it all."
• (John Candy) "Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it."

Malik Yoba as Yul Brenner

• (Malik Yoba) "Look in the mirror, and tell me what you see."
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "I see Junior."
• (Malik Yoba) "You see Junior? Well, let me tell you what I see. I see pride. I see power. I see a bad-ass mother who don't take no crap off of nobody."

• (Malik Yoba) "Hey, Dreadlocks. Let me kiss your lucky egg."

• (Malik Yoba) "Say whatever it is that you want 'cause you're just like every other fool on the island. You're going nowhere, Sanka, and you're thrilled to death about it. But you see me? You see me? I'm different, 'cause I know exactly where I'm going and after I, Yul Brenner, win the Olympics and become famous I'm going to leave the island and live right down there."
• (Malik Yoba) "What are you laughing about? What are you laughing about?"
• (Doug E. Doug) "That's Buckingham Palace. You plan on living there, you're going to have to marry the Queen."
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Yul, that's where the Queen of England lives."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Face it, Yul Brenner you can start calling yourself Madonna but you're still going to end up in an outhouse shanty like every other dock working nobody."
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Mm, says who?"
• (Doug E. Doug) "Says me, rich boy. What do you know about it?"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Well, I know my father started off in a one room hut. Now he lives in one of the biggest homes in Kingston."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Well, he ain't your father."
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "He doesn't have to be. All he has to do is know what he wants and work hard for it. And if he wants it bad enough, he'll get it. Look, believe me, Sanka the more Yul Brenners we got making it in this world the better off this world will be, especially for Jamaicans. Go ahead, Yul Brenner. Go get your palace."

• (Malik Yoba) "Remember, this doesn't mean that I like you."

• (Malik Yoba) "Don't touch me."

• (Malik Yoba) "How about I beat your butt right now?"
• (Doug E. Doug) "How about I draw a line down the middle of your head so it looks like a butt?"

Doug E. Doug as Sanka Coffie

• (Doug E. Doug) "The key elements to a successful sled team are a steady driver, and three strong runners to push off down the ice. Ice? Ice."
• (Leon Robinson) "Well, it's kind of a winter sport, you know."
• (Doug E. Doug) "You mean winter, as in ice?"
• (Leon Robinson) "Possibly."
• (Doug E. Doug) "You mean winter, as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ice?"
• (Leon Robinson) "Maybe."
• (Doug E. Doug) "See ya."

• (Doug E. Doug) "So, let's talk about this billsled team."
• (Leon Robinson) "No, bobsled team."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Whoever. Now, about the Weaties box. I'm gunna be on it myself, right?"
• (Leon Robinson) "No, mon, you gunna be on it with me."

• (Doug E. Doug) "Look, Star. Let me tell you a little something, alright? When you need something from me, you don't have to hand me a bunch of lines. All you have to do is look at me in the eye and say, "Sanka, you are my best friend, we've been through a whole heap together, and I really, really need you.""
• (Leon Robinson) "Sanka, you're right. And you are my best friend. We've been through a whole lot together."
• (Doug E. Doug) ""Heap, heap.""
• (Leon Robinson) "Sorry, mon. Whole heap together."
• (Doug E. Doug) ""And I really, really need you.""
• (Leon Robinson) "And I really, really need you."
• (Doug E. Doug) "-- Forget it."

• (Doug E. Doug) "What I am saying to you, is that you are the kind of club-toting, raw-meat-eating, Me-Tarzan-You-Jane-ing, big, bald bubblehead that can only count to ten if he's barefoot or wearing sandals."

• (Doug E. Doug) "Coach. Coach. I can't get my helmet on."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Thanks coach."
• (John Candy) "That's what I'm here for."

• (Irwin Blitzer) "Gentlemen, a bobsled is a simple thing."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Yeah, so's a toilet."

• (Doug E. Doug) "Hey Derice. Ya dead?"
• (Leon Robinson) "No mon, I'm not dead. We have to finish the race --"

• (Doug E. Doug) "Rise and shine."
• (Leon Robinson) "It's butt-whippin' time."

• (Doug E. Doug) "Greetings, sled god."

• (Doug E. Doug) "I'm the driver."
• (John Candy) "You're not. You're the brakeman."
• (Doug E. Doug) "You don't understand, I am Sanka Coffie, I am the best pushcart driver in all of Jamaica. I must drive. Do you dig where I'm coming from?"
• (John Candy) "Yeah, I dig where you're coming from."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Good."
• (John Candy) "Now dig where I'm coming from. I'm coming from two gold medals. I'm coming from nine world records in both the two- and four-man events. I'm coming from ten years of intense competition with the best athletes in the world."
• (Doug E. Doug) "That's a hell of a place to be coming from."

• (Doug E. Doug) "'Nuff people say, you know they can't believe, Jamaica, we have a bobsled team. We have the one Derice --"
• (Leon Robinson) "And the one Junior --"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Yu-"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "-- Sanka."
• (Leon Robinson) "The fastest of the fastest of Jamaican sprinters --"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Go to Olympics, fight for Jamaica."

• (Doug E. Doug) "That guy won two gold medals?"

• (Unnamed) "Who's the captain of our crew? Who's a friend to me and you? Kinda nice, good-looking too. Sanka, Sanka, yay, Sanka."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Ha ha ha. Get back to work."
• (Leon Robinson) "Who's the big hot bag of air, who doesn't have to comb his hair? Who doesn't bathe and doesn't care, Sanka, Sanka, yay, Sanka."

• (Doug E. Doug) "So what are we gunna name the sled?"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "How about "Tallulah?""
• (Doug E. Doug) "Tallulah. Hahaha. Tallulah. Sounds like a 2 dollar hooker. Where you come up with that?"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "That's my mother's name."

• (Doug E. Doug) "Feel the rhythm. Feel the rhyme. Get on up, its bobsled time. Cool Runnings."

• (Doug E. Doug) "Yippy ki yey."

• (Doug E. Doug) "You want to kiss my egg?"
• (Malik Yoba) "I'm not kissing no egg."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Suit yourself."

Rawle D. Lewis as Junior Bevill

• (Whitby Bevil - Sr.) "I got you a job with Webster, Webster and Cohen, the biggest brokerage house in Miami."
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Oh right. Webster, Webster and Cohen."
• (Whitby Bevil - Sr.) "Yes. That's right. And you start end of the month."
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Yes, but I thought that I would."
• (Whitby Bevil - Sr.) "Look we went along with this track nonsense long enough. And we agreed that it's time to get on with your real future. Right?"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "I know."
• (Whitby Bevil - Sr.) "Right?"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Yes sir."
• (Whitby Bevil - Sr.) "Good. I'm going to tell your mother. I guess we sure told him."

• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Seeming to you nobody likes us?"
• (Malik Yoba) "We're different. People are always afraid of what's different."

• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Now, you look. I will not be talked to that way. So you'd better come up with a damn good apology or else."
• (Peter Outerbridge) "Or else what?"
• (Rawle D. Lewis) "Ow."
• (Peter Outerbridge) "Huh, Jamaica? "Or else" what?"
• (Peter Outerbridge) "Come on, Jamaica say something."
• (Malik Yoba) "No problem, mon."

Leon Robinson as Derice Bannock

• (Leon Robinson) "I can't believe you're still cold, mon."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Cold? I'm freezing my royal Rastafarian nay-nays off."

• (Doug E. Doug) "Hey. Hey. What you doin?"
• (Leon Robinson) "This is what the Swiss do to psyche themselves up."
• (Doug E. Doug) "They also make them little pocket knives, too, but I don't see you doing that."

• (Leon Robinson) "Sanka mon, whatcha smoking?"
• (Doug E. Doug) "I'm not smoking, I'm breathing."

• (Leon Robinson) ""Cool Runnings" means "Peace Be The Journey.""

• (Leon Robinson) "Hey, you can pee now."
• (Doug E. Doug) "Um too late."

• (Leon Robinson) "Sanka you dead?"
• (Doug E. Doug) "Ya, mon."

Bertina Macauley as Joy Bannock

• (Bertina Macauley) "Derice, is Sanka ready?"
• (Momma Coffie) "Ready? That boy's never ready. He's a lazy, sorry, no-good bag of bones."
• (Momma Coffie) "So what ya laughing at?"

Peter Outerbridge as Josef Grul

• (Peter Outerbridge) "Hey, Jamaica. Watch out for Number Twelve turn. Scary, ja?"
• (Leon Robinson) "What's his problem?"
• (John Candy) "He's Josef Grul. He's one of the best drivers in the world."
• (Malik Yoba) "Yeah, he's one of the biggest ASSHOLES in the world, too."

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