Love & Basketball (2000)

Sanaa Lathan: Monica Wright

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Quotes 

• Monica : I'll play you.

  Quincy : For what?

  Monica : Your heart.

• Monica : [reads note]  "Q, you are SO fine. I been wantin' to get with you. Take me to the Spring Dance and I promise I'll leave you satisfied."

  [In a disgusted tone] 

  Monica : Ugh... What a ho!

  Quincy : Why she gotta be a ho? Cuz she wants to get with me?

  Monica : Um, she's a ho because she's sending her coochie through the mail! I mean, she's not saying "You're a nice guy, and I want to get to know you." She's saying, "I wanna bone!"

  Quincy : At least she's honest.

  Monica : [rolling her eyes]  Yeah... an honest tramp ass ho! But then, I guess you'll stick your thing in anything.

  Quincy : My "thing?" Didn't know you cared so much.

  Monica : I don't.

  Quincy : Who you goin to the dance with anyway? Spalding?

  Monica : Who's Spalding?

  Quincy : [nods at basketball in Monica's hands] 

  Monica : [punches Quincy]  Stupid!

• Monica : I've been in love with you since I was eleven, and the shit won't go away.

• Sidra O'Neal : That's what you get for trying to show out... freshman.

  Monica : I was just trying to play ball.

  Sidra O'Neal : You were TRYING to make me look bad.

  Monica : Didn't have to try very hard.

  Sidra O'Neal : Girl, don't you know you just sloppy seconds?

  Big Toni : Sidra. Let it go.

  Sidra O'Neal : The ONLY reason you here, is 'cause Tanya Randall got pregnant, and decided not to come. They were DONE recruiting.

  Zvette : That's cold, Sid.

  Sidra O'Neal : Just thought the girl should know.

  [stalks off to the showers] 

  Shayla : Don't even trip, mama. She's just mad because she's bow-legged.

• Coach Davis : [In her office after a game]  We've got our final games against Oregon and Oregon State, and I'm shaking things up a bit, so... I'm starting you at point again.

  Monica : But, uh... I thought Sidra's ankle was OK for next game.

  Coach Davis : [impatiently]  You want the job, or not?

  Monica : Yeah.

  [Keeps staring at Coach Davis] 

  Coach Davis : What?

  Monica : It just... it just seems like you're always riding me.

  Coach Davis : [pauses, then speaks]  You think I'd go hoarse for a player with no potential? When I ignore you... then you worry.

• Quincy : I took the ho to Burger King.

  Monica : Cheap date.

• Camille Wright : I don't know why I keep wishing that you'll grow out of this tomboy phase.

  Monica : I won't. I'm a lesbian.

  [her sister cracks up] 

  Camille Wright : That's not funny.

  Monica : That's what you think, is it? Because I'd rather wear a jersey than an apron?

• Monica : So that's it? Just forget about you and me?

• Monica : What did I do?

  Quincy : You forgot to be there.

  Monica : I had curfew. If coach would've caught me I wouldn't have been able to start.

  Quincy : At least you got your priorities straight.

  Monica : I never asked you to choose.

  Quincy : You never had to.

• Monica : I'm a ball player.

• Monica : It's a trip, you know? When you're a kid, you-you see the life you want, and it never crosses your mind that it's not gonna turn out that way.

• Camille Wright : It's just a game!

  Monica : What?

  Camille Wright : Even time you lose you get this attitude, but it's just a game.