It's all right. We're in a fight. You boys are doing all that you can do. Anybody can see...

Coach Boone: It's all right. We're in a fight. You boys are doing all that you can do. Anybody can see that. Win or lose... We gonna walk out of this stadium tonight with our heads held high. Do your best. That's all anybody can ask for. Big Ju: No, it ain't Coach. With all due respect, uh, you demanded more of us. You demanded perfection. Now, I ain't saying that I'm perfect, 'cause I'm not. And I ain't gonna never be. None of us are. But we have won every single game we have played till now. So this team is perfect. We stepped out on that field that way tonight. And, uh, if it's all the same to you, Coach Boone, that's how we want to leave it. Coach Yoast: Yeah. I hope you boys have learned as much from me this year as I've learned from you. You've taught this city how to trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him. And I guess it's about time I joined the club.

Ow. I ... it's all right, Bill. I feel the same way. It's those agitators and race-mixers I feel like taking a swat at. Troublemakers in the Berg are ready to put a torch to the city. to put a torch to the city. You want us to burn up like Watts ? Every head coach in the system is white. We had to give them something. It's the world we live in, God help us all. I left North Carolina because I was passed over for a job that I had rightfully earned. Gave it to a white coach down there couldn't even tie up his own football cleats. Now you are asking me to do the same thing to this man ? I can't do that. Herman ? Folks in Carolina say you marched with Dr. King. Say you stood toe-to-toe with the Klan. Said you're a race man. That's right. I'm also a family man. Coach Boone, black folks have never had anything in this city to call their own except humiliation and despair. Dr. Day, excuse me. Herman, I think you'd better look outside. So, you see, we need you, Coach Boone. Come on, meet the people. Coach Boone, I'm Charles Campbell. This here is my boy Julius. He can be the fi nest defensive end in the whole state if you push him to it. I've heard a lot about you. You're like an answer to our prayers. Now, wait a minute. I'm not an answer to your prayers. I'm not a savior or Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King, or the Easter bunny. I'm a football coach, that's all. Just a football coach. You're our coach. You're our coach ! Coach Boone ! Boone ! Boone ! Boone ! What do you want ? Is Coach Yoast here ? We're busy ... interviewing for head coaching jobs. Gotten 11 offers and certainly no time for you. Well, come on in. I've got an office out back. Look, I can't even spell diplomacy, and I'm sorry about the way things went down, but make no mistake, I am qualified to be this school's head coach.