Milton: Kevin, you know me. I'm not an impulsive person. I pencil in trips to the bathroom on my day planner.

Mr. Harrelson: You told my son that giving him the ball is not the answer. Best he learn that now. Best he learn that in eighth grade, or seventh grade, or even sooner, don't you think, Ms. Davis? Now maybe I failed some things as his dad, but this school failed him, too. These teachers here kept promoting him, didn't they? This school never got him the message. And now you're trying to send it? Now when college scouts are coming, now when football is about to deliver him an education at the University, now you people want to rise up and deliver him the message that athletics ain't everything?

Mr. Pierce: I don't know whether to hire a lawyer to sue you or leap across that desk and break your neck.
Mr. Lick: You'd have more success with a lawyer.

Scott Guber: Mr. Senate, is there anything you do not find humoring?
Harry Senate: Your tie?

Scott Guber: Mr. Senate, your class started ten minutes ago.
Harry Senate: Excellent. Usually they wait 'til I get here.

Scott Guber: Where's Ms. Hendricks?
Student: We think she's dead, sir.
Scott Guber: And why do you think that, Ms. Washington?
[Student points to words on a chalkboard: GONE TO KILL MYSELF, HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY!!!]

Scott Guber: You're suspended, Mr. Connelly.
Student: Look, please! If I get suspended, my parents will kill me.
Scott Guber: Then perhaps this is Goodbye aswell. Retrieve your books. Be gone in one hour.
Scott: Do I look like I'm stupid, Ms. Holt?

Scott (to Harvey): Did you bury me?
Harvey: Why would I do that, Scott?
Scott: You buried me.
Harvey: Scott, I don't get many chances to get you the hell out of Winslow High. I didn't waste the opportunity.

Scott: (to Kevin Jackson) What does it say about how you think of yourself if you were to conclude the only reason I want you on the team is because of the color of your skin? Is that how you view yourself, Mr. Jackson? Are you going to assume the role of black victim every opportunity that comes your way? Every gain, every loss, will simply be the by-product of your ethnicity? Why don't you hustle off to your favorite tattoo parlor and have "woe" stamped onto your forehead. Let me tell you, Mr. Jackson, I have no use for victims on my team, no matter what they come in. You have a talent. It's that talent I'm trying to avail myself of. Forgive me for trying to recognize it in the face of your dogged determination not to.

Scott: Mr. Senate, I need a favor.
Harry: Is it sexual?
Scott: Why must you be depraved at every turn, Mr. Senate?
Harry: It's in my character.

Scott: Teaching is my calling, Steven, but it's never been my dream. Dreams are made of sterner stuff.
Steven: That's ambition.
Scott: Up there, that's a dream. And this experience, I think, will only make conspicuous how... how my life is utterly without song, I guess.

Scott: What did you call me?
Darren: I called you a lot of things, but I finished up with "autocratic hack."

Sheryl: Mr. Guber, if you keep asking those rhetorical questions, one day, somebody will respond, and the answer won't please you.

Steven Harper: We do not help kids one by one here. Too many of them, too few of us. We serve masses, hoping more of them make it than don't. And our best results, like it or not, come with policy.

Steven Harper: Why are you here?
Harvey Lipschultz: Because vice-president "Hitler" has ordered me to stay here.