[…] Jimmy Dugan: Taking a little day trip? Dottie Hinson: No, Bob and I are driving home. To Oregon. Jimmy Dugan: [long pause] You know, I really thought you were a ballplayer. Dottie Hinson: Well, you were wrong. Jimmy Dugan: Was I? Dottie Hinson: Yeah. It is only a game, Jimmy. It’s only a game, and, and, I don’t need this. I have Bob; I don’t need this. At all. Jimmy Dugan: I, I gave away five years at the end my career to drink. Five years. And now there isn’t anything I wouldn’t give to get back any one day of it. Dottie Hinson: Well, we’re different. Jimmy …read more […]

It's my favorite inspirational line in all of film (a close second is Duke from "Rocky IV" when he said: "You know what you have to do. Do it. *Do* it.") My favorite inspirational TV line is courtesy of "Mad Men" character Don Draper: "You're good. Get better. Stop asking for things."

Yep, Nike was onto something with that ad campaign: Just do it. Doesn't get much simpler than that.