Written and directed by Cameron Crowe.

Jerry Maguire

• Two nights later in Miami at our corporate conference, a breakthrough. Breakdown? Breakthrough. It was the oddest, most unexpected thing. I began writing what they call a Mission Statement for my company. You know -- a Mission Statement -- a suggestion for the future. What started out as one page became twenty-five. Suddenly I was my father's son. I was remembering the simple pleasures of this job, how I ended up here out of law school, the way a stadium sounds when one of my players performs well on the field... And suddenly it was all pretty clear. The answer was fewer clients. Caring for them, caring for ourselves, and the games too. Starting our lives, really. Hey, I'll be the first to admit it. What I was writing was somewhat "touchy feely." I didn't care. I had lost the ability to bullshit. It was the me I'd always wanted to be.

• I will not rest until I have you holding a Coke, wearing your own shoe, playing a Sega game featuring you, while singing your own song in a new commercial, starring you, broadcast during the Superbowl, in a game that you are winning, and I will not sleep until that happens. I'll give you fifteen minutes to call me back.

• [to Rod] I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok? Help me... help you. Help me, help you.

Dialogue

Ray: What's wrong, mom?

Dorothy: First class is what's wrong. It used to be a better meal. Now it's a better life.

Rod: Now to recap, I want to stay in Arizona. I want my new contract. I like you, you're nice to my wife.

Jerry: That's that's great. I'm really... happy.

Rod: Are you listenin'?

Jerry: Yes!

Rod: This is what I'm gonna do for you: God bless you, Jerry. But this is what you gonna do for me, Jerry?

Jerry: Yeah, what can I do for you, Rod? You just tell me what can I do for you?

Rod: It's something very personal, a very important thing. Hell! It's a family motto. Are you ready Jerry? I wanna make sure you're ready, brother. Here it is: Show me the money. Show! Me! The! Money! Jerry, it is such a pleasure to say that! Say it with me one time, Jerry.

Jerry: Show you the money.

Rod: No, no. You can do better than that! I want you to say it brother with meaning! Hey, I got Bob Sugar on the other line I bet you he can say it!

Jerry: Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. Show you the money.

Rod: No! Not show you! Show me the money!

Jerry: Show me the money!

Rod: Yeah! Louder!

Jerry: Show me the money!

Rod: I need to feel you Jerry!

Jerry: Show me the money! Show me the money!

Rod: I love black people.

Jerry: I love black people!

Rod: Who's your motherfucker, Jerry?

Jerry: You're my motherfucker! Show me the money!

Rod: Uh! Congratulations, you're still my agent.

Jerry: I started talking with Dennis Wilburn about your renegotiation.

Rod: Talking. Jerry Rice, Andre Reed, Chris Carter... I smoke all these fools. They are making the big sweet dollars. They are making the... kwan, and you are talking.

Jerry: Kwam. That's your word?

Rod: Yeah, man, it means love, respect, community... and the dollars too. The whole package. The kwam.

Jerry: Great word. Towel?

Rod: No, I air-dry.

Jerry: Rod, I say this with great respect, but those players you mentioned are marquee players...

Rod: Marquee?!?

Jerry: Here's what I'm saying. This is a renegotiation. We want more from them, so let's show them more from us. Let's show them your pure joy of the game, let's bury the attitude a little, let's show them --

Rod: You're telling me to dance.

Jerry: No, I'm saying to be --

Rod: "Love me love me love me... put me on t.v." That's the iconography of rascism, man!

Jerry: Rod, I'm not a rascist. I'm telling you to be the best version of you, to get back to the guy who first started playing this game. Way back when you were a kid. It wasn't just about the money, was it?...Was it?

Rod: Do your job, man, don't tell me to dance.

Jerry: Fine. Fine. Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.

Rod: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer. These are the ABC's of ME. Get it? I do not dance.

Dorothy: Maybe I am taking advantage. Am I a bad person? All I know is that I found someone who was charming and popular and not-so-nice to me -- and he died. Okay? So why should I let this guy go, when everything in my body says this one is the one.

Laurel: Easy, hon, I was just looking for fun details --

Dorothy: Oh, well, why didn't you say so? And oh, I don't know if you're interested in this detail, but I was just about to tell you that I love him. I love him, and I don't care what you think. I love him for the man he wants to be, and I love him for the man he almost is. I love him.

[Looking over an inadequate contract offer]

Jerry: I'll go back to them.

Marcee: And say what? "Please remove your dick from my ass"?! I'm sorry. I'm just a little pregnant right now.

Jerry: Can I ask you a question totally unrelated to your career?

Rod: Oh, we gonna be friends now?

Jerry: What do you know about dating a single mother?

Rod: Oh I know plenty. I was raised by a single mother.

Jerry: Tell me, because it's been a month, and she's about to take another job in San Diego.

Rod: First, single mothers don't "date." They have been to the circus, you know what I'm saying? They have been to the puppet show and they have seen the strings. You love her?

Jerry: How do I know?

Rod: You know when you know. It makes you shiver, it eats at your insides. You know?

Jerry: No, I don't know.

Rod: Then you gotta have The Talk.

Jerry: But I sure don't like that she's leaving.

Rod: Well, that ain't fair to her. A single mother, that's a sacred thing, man.

Jerry: The kid is amazing.

Rod: No. A real man does not shoplift the "pooty" from a single mom.

Jerry: I didn't "shoplift the pooty." We were thrown together and -- I mean it's two mutual people who -- Alright, I shoplifted the pooty.

Rod: Shame on you. Shame on you.

Dorothy: I took advantage of you and worst of all, I'm not alone. I did this with a kid. I was just on some ride where I thought I was in 1ove enough for both of us. I did this. And at least I can do something about it now.

Jerry: Well -- I'm not the guy who's going to run. I stick.

Dorothy: I don't need you to "stick."

Jerry: What do you want from me? My soul?

Dorothy: Why not? I deserve that much.

Jerry: What if I'm just not built that way?

Dorothy: I think we made a mistake here.

Jerry: What if it's true? "Great at friendship bad at intimacy." I mean, come on. It's the theme of my bachelor party film --

Dorothy: I know. I watched it. I sort of know it by heart.

Jerry: I don't like to give up.

Dorothy: Oh please. My need to make the best of things, and your need to be what, "responsible"... if one of us doesn't say something now we might lose ten years being polite about it. Why don't we call this next road trip what it is. A nice long break.

Jerry: What about Ray?

Dorothy: There's no question you'll be friends. Of course you'll be friends.

Jerry: So this break... is a break-up.

Dorothy: Come on, Jerry. You know this isn't easy for me. I mean, on the surface, you'd almost think everything was fine. See, I've got this great guy who loves my kid -- and he sure does like me a lot. I can't live that way. It's not the way I'm built.

Jerry: Hello. I'm looking for my wife. Alright. If this is where it has to happen, then this is where it has to happen. I'm not letting you get rid of me. How about that? This used to be my specialty. I was good in a living room. Send me in there, I'll do it alone. And now I just... I don't know...but our little company had a good night tonight. A really big night. But it wasn't complete, it wasn't nearly close to being in the same vicinity as complete, because I couldn't share it with you. I couldn't hear your voice, or laugh about it with you. I missed my wife. We live in a cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors, I love you. You complete me. And I just...

Dorothy: Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at hello.

Taglines

• Everybody loved him... Everybody disappeared.

• The rest of his life begins now.

• The journey is everything.

• Show me the money!

Cast

• Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
• Cuba Gooding Jr. - Rod Tidwell
• Renée Zellweger - Dorothy Boyd
• Kelly Preston - Avery Bishop
• Jerry O'Connell - Frank Cushman
• Jay Mohr - Bob Sugar
• Bonnie Hunt - Laurel Boyd
• Regina King - Marcee Tidwell
• Jonathan Lipnicki - Ray Boyd
• Todd Louiso - Chad the Nanny
• Mark Pellington - Bill Dooler
• Jeremy Suarez - Tyson Tidwell
• Jared Jussim - Dicky Fox
• Glenn Frey - Dennis Wilburn
• Eric Stoltz - Ethan Valhere
• Beau Bridges - Matt Cushman
• Lucy Liu - Former Girlfriend
• Emily Procter - Former Girlfriend
• Roy Firestone - Himself
• Al Michaels - Himself
• Dan Dierdorf - Himself
• Frank Gifford - Himself
• Mel Kiper - Himself
• Jeffrey Lurie - Himself (as Jeff Lurie)
• Drew Rosenhaus - Himself
• Rich Kotite - Himself
• Mike Tirico - Himself
• Wayne Fontes - Himself
• Johnnie Morton - Himself
• Rick Mirer - Himself
• Drew Bledsoe - Himself
• Rob Moore - Himself
• Ki-Jana Carter - Himself
• Herman Moore - Himself
• Art Monk - Himself
• Troy Aikman - Himself
• Katarina Witt - Herself
• Warren Moon - Himself
• Kerry Collins - Himself
• Jim Irsay - Himself