Tin Cup Quotes

Tin Cup is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Tin Cup ended its run in 1970.

It features Gary Foster (producer) as producer, and William Ross (composer) in charge of musical score.

Each episode of Tin Cup is 135 min. long. Tin Cup is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Kevin Costner as Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy, Rene Russo as Dr. Molly Griswold, Cheech Marin as Romeo Posar, Cheech Marin as Romeo, Don Johnson as Dave Simms, Rene Russo as Molly, Linda Hart as Doreen, and Rex Linn as Dewey.

Tin Cup Quotes

Rene Russo as Dr. Molly Griswold

• (Rene Russo) "This is without a doubt the stupidest, silliest, most idiotic grotesquery masquerading as a game that has ever been invented."
• (Kevin Costner) "Yes, ma'am, that's why I love it."

• (Rene Russo) "Doreen, how did he get the name Tin Cup?"
• (Linda Hart) "Oh, he was the catcher on the high school baseball team. The star pitcher had a big-league curve -- not all of his pitches hit Roy in the mitt, ouch. The team thought Tin Cup was a whole lot better than Clank."

• (Rene Russo) "Oh -- f***."
• (Kevin Costner) "Well, you talk like a golfer. Here, try again."
• (Rene Russo) "s***."
• (Kevin Costner) ""f***." "s***." These are highly technical golf terms and you're using them on your first lesson. This is promising."

• (Rene Russo) "Is this normal for him?"
• (Earl) "Well, the words "normal" and "him" don't often collide in the same sentence."

• (Rene Russo) "All you have to do is walk up to this, this woman, wherever she is, look her in the eye; look at me, Roy; just look her in the eyes, that's right, let down your guard, and don't try to be cool or smooth or whatever; just be honest and take a risk. And you know what, whatever happens, if you act from the heart, you can't make a mistake."
• (Kevin Costner) "Dr. Griswold --"
• (Rene Russo) "Yes?"
• (Kevin Costner) "I think I'm in love with you."
• (Rene Russo) "What?"
• (Kevin Costner) "From the moment I first saw you, I knew I was through with bar girls and -- strippers and motorcycle chicks, and -- when we first started talking I was smitten with you, and I'm smitten with you more every day I think about you, and the fact that you know I'm full of crapola only makes you more attractive to me. Usually I can bulls*** people, but I can't bulls*** you, and in addition you got, you got great legs, and -- most women I'm thinking about how to get in their pants from day one, but with you I'm just -- I'm just thinking about how to get in your heart, and --"

• (Rene Russo) "Oh, you amuse me, Roy, but I'm the only woman in America born after World War II that thinks astrology's a crock of s***."

• (Rene Russo) "I find him -- mildly attractive when he's obnoxious and arrogant like this."
• (Cheech Marin) "Oh, good. That's his best side."

• (Rene Russo) "I'm a, like, terrible shrink, probably. I should have never gotten out of real estate, s***, actually, I should have never left Ohio for that cowboy in Amarillo, but -- Have you ever been to Amarillo?"
• (Kevin Costner) "Cowboy?"
• (Rene Russo) "Yeah. It's not as romantic when you're actually with one, trust me."

• (Rene Russo) "There's no such thing as semi-platonic."
• (Kevin Costner) "Well there ought to be."

• (Rene Russo) "Roy, Roy -- why are you here?"
• (Kevin Costner) "Therapy."
• (Rene Russo) "You've come for therapy? Okay, look, Roy, you know, you really need to make an appointment. Because I have a client in a half an hour."
• (Kevin Costner) "That's enough time. Thirty minutes? Hell, I'm not THAT f***ed up."

Kevin Costner as Roy 'Tin Cup' McAvoy

• (Kevin Costner) "I got time for a quick bucket?"
• (US Open Starter) "Tee it up."
• (Cheech Marin) "Man, it took awhile to get you off the floor this morning, hoss. And may I say you don't handle the hooch like you used to."
• (Cheech Marin) "Oh yeah, I saw this hole on TV. Just hit the big dog the hell up the chute."
• (Kevin Costner) "No, I've learned my lesson. Just going to play it safe, smart, conservative, fairways and greens.Give me the 2-Iron."
• (Cheech Marin) "Are you sure?"
• (Kevin Costner) "Yeah."
• (Kevin Costner) "Be humble, be humble."
• (Cheech Marin) "83. Well, you're humble now, holmes."
• (Kevin Costner) "I was hungover."
• (Cheech Marin) "Well -- that may have been a coaching error on my part."
• (Kevin Costner) "Yeah, I think maybe it was. Thanks, amigo."

• (Kevin Costner) "This is for Venturi who thinks I should lay up."
• (Cheech Marin) "What does he know? He only won this tournament before you were born."

• (Kevin Costner) "It's a lock. I hit my 7-iron like John Daly hits the 3."

• (Kevin Costner) ""Not tonight" means maybe some other night?"
• (Rene Russo) "No, I didn't mean it that like that."
• (Kevin Costner) "Maybe consciously you didn't mean it that way, but how about unconsciously? Come on, you're the expert -- did you mean it unconsciously?"
• (Rene Russo) "Roy, unconsciously, I have no idea what I'm talking about."
• (Kevin Costner) "Well, I feel we're making progress --"
• (Rene Russo) "Well, I do too. I have no idea what it's progress towards, though. None."

• (Kevin Costner) "That's because you think of it as transportation, Boone. Think of it as bragging rights. Think of yourself sitting around the bar, crowing to your cronies about the Cadillac you won from me. They'll forget all about the Winnebago you lost to me."

• (Kevin Costner) "Does my inner child need a spanking?"

• (Kevin Costner) "Tell me you don't at least find me a little bit attractive?"
• (Rene Russo) "You have your moments."
• (Kevin Costner) "Well, you tell me which moments are my moments and I'll try to duplicate them."

• (Kevin Costner) "Keep shooting pars, asshole."
• (Don Johnson) "I'll take 18 of them, all day long."
• (Kevin Costner) "Do it and I'll own you."

• (Kevin Costner) "If I had it to do all over again, I'd still hit that shot."
• (Cheech Marin) "Man, you'd bury yourself alive just to prove you could handle the shovel."

• (Kevin Costner) "Look, I love Earl, okay, but -- I need you."
• (Cheech Marin) "You don't love me?"
• (Kevin Costner) "Yeah, yeah, I-I love you too, goddammit."
• (Cheech Marin) "Well, as much as Earl?"
• (Kevin Costner) "I don't know. I mean, when I was with Earl, I was thinking of you -- Yes, uh, as much as Earl. More than Earl. More than Earl."
• (Cheech Marin) "Am I special?"
• (Kevin Costner) "Well, if you can remove the sexual overtones and add a golf theme, then Romeo, I am your Juliet."

• (Kevin Costner) "When a defining moment comes along you define the moment or the moment defines you."

• (Kevin Costner) "Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them."

• (Kevin Costner) "This is everything, ain't it? This is the choice it comes down to; this is our immortality."
• (Cheech Marin) "You don't need to be thinking immortality; you need to be thinking hit the 7 iron."

• (Kevin Costner) "You don't think I can knock it on from there?"
• (Unnamed) "Let's just say it's a low-percentage shot."
• (Kevin Costner) "Well, so am I. I mean, look at me, all right, what I'm wearing. I mean, I'm playing for Rio Grande Short-Haul Trucking, Briggs and Brown Sanitation, First State Bank of Salome, Woody's Smokehouse -- You think a -- you think a guy like me bothers to worry about the percentages?"

• (Kevin Costner) "When was the last time you took a risk?"
• (Rene Russo) "Well, I'm with you, Roy. I'm with you."

• (Kevin Costner) "It won't always be like this, you know."
• (Rene Russo) "What?"
• (Kevin Costner) "With me surrounded by all these guys, snoring -- stripper ex-girlfriend laying across from us -- caddy sleeping next to her. It won't always be like this."
• (Rene Russo) "Yes, it will."

• (Kevin Costner) "Nice par, David."

• (Kevin Costner) "Well, I tend to think of the golf swing as a poem."
• (Clint) "Ooh, he's doing that poetry thing again."
• (Kevin Costner) "The critical opening phrase of this poem will always be the grip. Which the hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger. Lowly and slowly the clubhead is led back. Pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body which turns away from the target shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance. Tempo is everything; perfection unobtainable as the body coils down at the top of the swing. Theres a slight hesitation. A little nod to the gods."
• (Rene Russo) "A, a nod to the gods?"
• (Kevin Costner) "Yeah, to the gods. That he is fallible. That perfection is unobtainable. And now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth. It's alive, this swing. A living sculpture and down through contact, always down, striking the ball crisply, with character. A tuning fork goes off in your heart and your balls. Such a pure feeling is the well-struck golf shot. Now the follow through to finish. Always on line. The reverse C of the Golden Bear. The steel workers' power and brawn of Carl Sandburg's. Arnold Palmer."
• (Cheech Marin) "Unnhh, he's doing the Arnold Palmer thing."
• (Kevin Costner) "End the unfinished symphony of Roy McAvoy."

• (Kevin Costner) "Well, I'm stuck, and I'm buried. I need help, and I need advice. I need counseling, I need a -- I need a shrink."
• (Cheech Marin) "You don't know no shrinks."
• (Kevin Costner) "I know one."
• (Cheech Marin) "No-ooo, no no no. Not the doctor lady."
• (Kevin Costner) "Why not?"
• (Cheech Marin) "You can't ask for advice about the woman you're trying to hose FROM the woman you're trying to hose."
• (Kevin Costner) "Why not?"

• (Kevin Costner) "Fifteen years on the tour an' you're still a f***in' p*****."
• (Don Johnson) "Thirteen years on the driving range and you still think this game is about your testosterone count."

• (Kevin Costner) "Do you find me sexy?"
• (Rene Russo) "You have your moments."
• (Kevin Costner) "Well, you let me know which moments are my moments and I'll try and duplicate 'em."

Cheech Marin as Romeo Posar

• (Cheech Marin) "Look, boss, I only got one rule. And that's never bet money that you don't have on a dog race with an ex-girlfriend who happens to be a stripper."

• (Cheech Marin) "Now THAT was a defining moment. And the definition was "s***.""

• (Cheech Marin) "You'd bury yourself in lye just to prove you could handle the shovel."

• (Cheech Marin) "Well, David Simms may be a "soulless robot", but he's a rich, happy, soulless robot -- with a beautiful doctor lady girlfried. Besides, how's getting in the Open going to change what she thinks about you?"
• (Kevin Costner) "Well, it'll show her that I'm not who she thinks I am."
• (Cheech Marin) "But you are who she thinks you are."

Linda Hart as Doreen

• (Linda Hart) "You're not one of those women who tries to fix men, I hope. I mean, men cannot be fixed, and especially him."

Don Johnson as Dave Simms

• (Guy at Bar) "I'll give you 4-to-1 odds."
• (Don Johnson) "4-to-1?"
• (Don Johnson) "s***, give him 10-to-1."

Rex Linn as Dewey

• (Rex Linn) "Winner, winner. Chicken Dinner."

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