Tim Riggins quotes from Friday Night Lights

Billy

[about Lyla] You're a rebound from Jesus.

Tim

No, I'm not a rebound.

Billy

You're a summer fling.

Tim

I don't believe that.

Tim

You know what, you know what the problem really is? Is that you don't take me seriously. I'm some fling to you.

Lyla

You're not a fling.

Tim

Okay, then what's the problem? [pause]: Shoot.

Lyla

Okay. You want to know what the problem is Tim? You scare me.

Tim

I scare you.

Lyla

Yeah, you scare me. You're Tim Riggins. You show up drunk to school. You don't do your own homework. You have rally girls do your homework for you. You don't go to class. Your relationships last about 20 minutes. How am I suppose to take you seriously if you don't take yourself seriously?

Lyla

Ok, take it off, take it off, come on.

Tim

Lyla, I know how to dress myself.

Lyla

No, you only know how to put on a plaid shirt and button one button.

Tim

You know what would be great? We just leave, cause I don't wanna go to this dinner in the first place.

Lyla

Yeah well, if you only did what you wanted to do, your life would be all about football, beer, and sex, wouldn't it?

Tim

And what's the problem with that?

Lyla

I didn’t know you googled.

Tim

I’m not retarded. I google.

Lyla

Yeah I know but sometimes you pretend you are.

Tim

You are coming over tomorrow night, correct?

Lyla

Mindy and Angela are gonna be there.

Tim

[confused] OK, no Mindy, what.. No.

Lyla

I don't know if you notice or not, but Mindy and Angela hate me.

Tim

What? They don't hate you. They don't even know you. If they did, they'd love you. And you know what? Somebody wants his girlfriend to be there. Okay? And you know what? If they even look at you wrong, and you don't see it, and I do? I'm gonna blindside them with the worst block they'll have ever seen. So what I want from you right now is for you to say, "Yes, Tim, I can't wait to see you and hang out with you tomorrow night".

Tim

It's when all the scared rats start running away from the sinking market that the true entrepreneurs come in, Billy. True visionaries.

Billy

I'm a visionary.

Psh, look at ya!

Jason

[to Tim] What are you doing out of school? [to Billy] What did you write him a note or something?

Tim

I told them I was pregnant. Need a few days to relax.

How many girlfriends do you have?

Tim

[looking at Lyla] Just the one, McCoy.

[looking at Lyla too] God, she is so pretty.

Tim

Yeah, she is pretty special, man.

Billy

[raising his glass] I love this life.

Tim

What? That's not a cheers, that's thinking out loud.

Jason

To money!

Billy

To being bad ass real estate guys.

Tim

Hey Six? Um, I hope you get everything... [clears his throat] I hope you get everything you want. But no matter what happens in there, you're always gonna be my best friend, and you deserve to be happy.

Jason

Thank you...Texas forever.

Tim

Texas forever.

Lyla

[walks in on Tim and Billy drinking] You're drunk right now? You have your meeting in like fifteen minutes.

Tim

I was just trying to help Billy mend his broken heart.

Lyla

[discussing college] Did you really get in?

Tim

Yeah, only Riggins to get in, probably the last.

Lyla

I knew you would.

Lyla

I'm sorry...

Tim

Don't be. It's fantastic. [kisses her] I'll get drunk with you. I'm on board.

Tim

I'm hitting the sheets. Want to come?

Lyla

I can't. I have a rematch [on MarioKart]. Aren't you gonna watch?

Tim

No.

Lyla

Okay. Goodnight Grandpa

Tim

Last game, Seven.

Matt

No regrets.

Tim

[After telling Billy that Lyla's going to Vanderbilt] I'm staying in Dillon is what it means, Billy. Riggins Rigs. We're in it together now. We're gonna be poppin' beer, makin' money, gettin' off early. I'm telling you. You're not getting it...

Billy

Tim!

Tim

What?

Billy

Come here. You listen to me, you little idiot. You are not gonna wuss out on this. You're gonna go to college and you're gonna get a degree. And I don't care if it takes you 7 years, all right? And when you start thinking it's too hard or that you can't handle it, I want you to remember one thing. I want you to think about the kids that you don't have yet. And I want you to think about my kids. Me and Mindy's kids that we don't have yet. And you're gonna get the job done so that one of these days I can tell them that they don't have to settle for second best. That they can be whoever the hell they want to be because their uncle Timmy went to college. And God bless our mom and dad, wherever the hell they are.

Tim

Yeah.

Billy

But we gotta do better by our kids. Do you hear me? Tim!!?

Tim

I thought...

Billy

Do you hear me?

Tim

Yeah.

Billy

All right.