Jason Street quotes from Friday Night Lights

Jason

Hit the slants, you hit the posts, they'll respect you. You hit this pattern (18 yard deep-out), they will fear you.

Jason

When success is essential to keeping a family together there is nothing a man won't do. Nothing.

Tim

Here's to God and football and, ten years from now, Street, good friends livin' large in Texas. Texas forever, Street.

Jason

Texas forever.

Lyla

Mr. Street, is it true that you can throw a 400 yard touchdown pass to three different receivers at the same time?

Jason

Yes, it's true.

Lyla

Then you must kiss me. [kisses Jason] Is it true that you have superhuman powers and can demolish buildings and hurl fireballs?

Jason

Yes, it's true.

Lyla

Then you must kiss me. [kisses Jason] Is it true, Mr. Street?

Jason

That I love Lyla Garrity.

Lyla

Yes, is that true, Mr. Street, that you love Lyla Garrity?

Jason

More than anything in the world.

Lyla

More than football?

Jason

[laughing] More than almost anything in the world. [kisses Lyla]

Jason

Stop! My legs are never gonna get better....ever.

Lyla

But there are cases, lots of cases--

Jason

And those cases aren't me. All right? I don't even have full use of my hands. I'll be lucky if I get that back. Alright, I can't even put my own shoes on and off. How can you not see that? What the hell is wrong with you?

Lyla

I'm just trying to help you.

Jason

Yeah, well, you're not helping. You wanna help then stop pretending that everything is OK.

Lyla

Why are you getting so mad?

Jason

Because every night when I go to sleep, I dream that I can walk again. And every morning, I wake up, and I have to accept it all over again. And then you walk in here, all smiles and acting like nothing's wrong and it's killing me! So get this through your head. My life as we knew it--over.

Lyla

Don't say that, Jason.

Jason

Football--over. Notre Dame, going pro, all that--gone. You and me? We're not getting married. So, I need you to do something for me, all right? Get out. Get out!! Don't just look at me, go!

Lyla

I'll be back tomorrow for when they transfer you to the rehab facility.

Tyra

Um...Look. I know we were never close buddies and I can only image the load of fake crap that you've had to put up with from people you hardly even know, and I am so not doing that. I just um--I came by to tell you how sorry I am that Tim hasn't been in to see you. He wants to. Although, he won't admit it, but he just can't do it.

Jason

Yeah, why is that?

Tyra

He's scared.

Jason

Oh, he's scared. Yeah, well that's Tim for you.

Tyra

Sure is. Well...

Jason

Well..thanks for coming.

Tyra

Yeah, yeah.

Jason

And you tell Tim whenever he's ready he can come on by.

Tyra

Jason...I'm really sorry. No, I mean...Something like this shouldn't happen to a good person like you. [kisses Jason on the cheek]

Jason

Took you long enough to get here, man.

Tim

My truck ain't running. We're putting in this four-barrel carb. I hitched a ride, man. Sorry.

Jason

I'm guessing you know what this is about.

Tim

I do?

Jason

Yeah, of course you do. You wanna call yourself my best friend and you haven't shown up but once since I've been in here. Six weeks, man. Six weeks. Let me go ahead and recap my life for you over the last couple of weeks, huh? My day starts out with me laying down on this bed, well pretty much the whole day takes place with me laying down in this bed on my sorry quadriplegic ass. Every day, people come in here poking and prodding me like I'm a piece of meat. Go ahead and stick a catheter in me in places you don't want to know about. My big adventure of the day is going to the commode ‘cause I gotta go at the same time everyday so I can teach my body how to crap on cue. Impressive, huh? And then Lyla comes running in-(laughing)--I wanna know if she's as chipper out there as she is in here. ‘Cause I tell you what –I love that girl. I do, I love her more than life itself but I tell you what if she tells me how great everything's gonna be when I finally get out of here one more time, I'm gonna lose it. Point is this Timmy, while I'm in here dealing with all this, by myself, and my best friend is out there putting a four barrel carb in his damn truck. Is that what's important right now? Answer me this Timmy, what happened to Texas forever? Huh? What happened to living large? What happened to that eternal bond that you used to love to throw around when I was still healthy and headed towards the NFL? Huh? I need you here Tim! I need you here. I expect---I expect you here. You are my best friend. Grace period's over.

Lyla

I think you should come.

Jason

I don't know. I still don't know if I'm ready to face everybody yet. You know, it's embarrassing being the center of attention and all.

Lyla

Like you're not used to that.

Jason

Well, for football maybe, but not for being hurt. I mean, come on, it's like “Hey everybody come check out the freak show, don't feed the animals”.

Lyla

It's not like that. People just want to see you, you know? I miss you.

Jason

Is that right?

Lyla

Mmm-hmm.

Jason

I gotta ask you something.

Lyla

Okay.

Jason

Is there something happening between you and Riggins, Lyla?

Lyla

No! Why would you even say that Jason?

Jason

‘Cause I saw you in the parking lot the other night.

Lyla

You saw us. Doing what?

Jason

I don't know. No--Nothing I guess.

Lyla

That's crazy. I love you. Jason, you know that don't you?

Jason

I do. I just had to ask. I'm sorry.

Jason

[about playing quad rugby] I'm ready. I told you I'm ready.

Jason, you're not ready.

Jason

Phil come on. Everyday it's about how--how great my progress has been, how unusual I am. What's the worse that could happen, huh? I fall out of my chair and break my neck, oh wait that already happened didn't it.

You could tear your rotator cuff. You can get a concussion. Worst case scenario, your fusion's still healing. You don't seem to know what that means so let me spell it out for you. Those little bits of bone are all that's protecting your spinal cord at your injury site. You know how you can use your hands, screw up your fusion, no more grip, then what? I want you to think long and hard about this before you do it.

Lyla

I'm sorry. There are no words that can ever express that, but I am so sorry. Please.

Jason

Did you have sex with him? How many times?

Lyla

Jason, please.

Jason

Oh come on, how many?... You can go.

Tim

I guess--I guess what I came here to tell you is that Lyla is completely in love with you and always has been and always will be. She's going through hell right now, Street. Hell.

Jason

I'm sure she is.

Tim

People at school are just ripping on her. I mean, she quit cheer. She's losing it. And I know it means probably nothing coming from me, but I thought you should know.

Jason

Well, I'm sure you can help her out with that.

Lyla

But everyone would've looked out for your family.

Jason

The town cripple? How long do you think that charity would've lasted, huh? It's killing me to have to do this to Coach, it's killing me to have to do this to the team but maybe they're all right. The lawyers, my parents maybe they're right. Maybe someone teaches me to tackle somebody I'm not in a chair. We're not in this mess.

Lyla

If you think this for the best then I'm with you.

Jason

What is it with you that you wanna screw your life up for me, huh?

Lyla

Love makes us kind of stupid.

Jason

Well, thank God for that. [kisses Lyla]

Buddy

You want me to be honest with ya son? Do ya?

Jason

Please.

Buddy

I love that little girl in there. That's my daughter and I want her to have a great life, and I'm real uncertain about the future here. I mean how is she gonna get money? How you gonna get money? You goin' go to college? Is she gonna go to college? Are you gonna have babies? Can you have babies? Can you? Can you have children, Jason?

Jason

We haven't quite answered that yet.

Buddy

What if you can't and what if you can, Jason? When that little baby's crying upstairs in the night who's gonna go up and take care of him? I don't want Lyla to be a care giver her whole life, son. I know that's a bitter pill to swallow, and I'm sorry I have to say it to you, and Lyla Garrity, she loves you, she'd follow you into hell. Are you sure you want to lead her there?

Jason

You're beautiful, you're smart and you're talented and you've got your whole future ahead of you.

Lyla

Oh my God, are you breaking up with me?

Jason

My choices are much more limited then yours.

Lyla

Please don't tell me you're breaking up--

Jason

Shh, shh, shh, shh. I went out with Herc tonight and I basically spent the whole evening convincing myself that I was just a huge thorn in your side, and after I got done doing that I started to think about Herc and why I like him so much, and I started to realize that I think I like him so much because he took his hand-cap and he didn't settle for just becoming as good as he was before, he tried to become a better man, and he did. And I think that if I can be more like him, maybe I wouldn't be such a bad guy to be around. And what....what he would do if he was in my shoes.

Lyla

He would dump me and go after Tyra.

Jason

No, he wouldn't.

Lyla

Yeah, he would, he told me.

Jason

But if it were you that he loved. If it were you...Lyla I love you more then life itself and I have loved you like that since the first moment I laid eyes on you. Lyla Garrity...will you marry me? Baby?