“Baseball may be a religion full of magic, cosmic truth, and the fundamental ontological riddles of our time, but it's also a job.”
Susan Sarandon - Annie Savoy

“- Jack Elliot: Just let them have a little fun.
- Uchiyama: Baseball is work. Not fun.
- Jack Elliot: Baseball is grown men getting paid to play a game. When you were a kid, I bet you didn't pick up a bat and ball because you were dying to work. A player's career is short enough. Let them enjoy it.”
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Ken Takakura - Uchiyama

“- Pop Fisher: You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer.
- Roy Hobbs: My dad wanted me to be a baseball player.
- Pop Fisher: Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you're the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up.”
Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher
Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs

“- Trish: Christ, do you think they even have a phone?
- Darry: I'm guessing no phones and a lot of guns.”

Gina Philips - Trish
Justin Long - Darry

“I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.”
Meryl Streep - Karen